The manufacturing materials for shrapnel sheets generally should possess high elastic limits, fatigue limits, impact toughness, and good heat treatment properties. Commonly used materials include carbon shrapnel steel, alloy shrapnel steel, stainless steel shrapnel, as well as copper alloys, nickel alloys, and rubber. The manufacturing methods for shrapnel sheets include cold rolling and hot rolling. Shrapnel wire with a diameter less than 8 millimeters is generally made using the cold rolling method, while those greater than 8 millimeters are made using the hot rolling method. Some shrapnel sheets undergo strong pressing or shot peening treatment after being produced to enhance their load-bearing capacity.

Depending on the characteristics of the materials, shrapnel sheets are applied to different environmental actuating mechanisms, and are widely used in various contact devices, with the most commonly used being simple-shaped cantilever-type shrapnel sheets. The resistance of the contact sheets must be small, thus they are made from bronze.

The role of measurement shrapnel sheets is to convert force or displacement. If the fixed structure and load-bearing method can ensure that the working length of the shrapnel remains unchanged, then the stiffness of the shrapnel sheets is constant within a small deformation range, and non-linear characteristics can also be obtained when necessary, for example, by pressing the shrapnel against a limiting plate or adjusting screw to change its working length.

Shrapnel sheets are widely used elastic components in the mechanical and electronic industries. Stainless steel shrapnel sheets can produce substantial elastic deformation under load, converting mechanical work or kinetic energy into deformation energy, and when unloaded, the deformation of the shrapnel sheets disappears and returns to its original state, converting the deformation energy back into mechanical work or kinetic energy.