Good morning,

I was hoping someone could enlighten me about the likelihood of relatively thin sheet metal cracking when bent. I'm trying to work out which sort of metal and thickness would suit my purposes best, as I was on the verge of buying 1mm thick aluminum sheets when I read that it cracks easily when bent, which would be very problematic for me.

This may sound a little odd, but what I'm wanting to do is incorporate an engineering-style action into a live action role play game. I want to simulate engineers having to repair a breach in a spaceship's hull by (lightly) hammering out a number of twisted/folded pieces of metal and reassembling them into their original shape, much like a jigsaw.

I had planned just to buy some sheets of metal, snip them into a rough jigsaw, and bend the pieces to make them look like wreckage. But research has since led me to believe that this amount of bending, and then unbending from the players, could likely cause the metal to crack and break if I'm not careful.

So can anyone please offer advice as to how this may work? I'm assuming aluminum is right out, but would another type of metal be more forgiving?

Many thanks,

Saau


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