1.1 This standard specifies types and grades, dimensions and tolerances, materials and manufacture, requirements, packing, marking and labelling, sampling and criteria for conformity and test for galvanized steel wire strands.
1.2 This standard covers only the galvanized steel wire strands composed of 7 wires and 19 wires suitable for use as aerial ground wires, buried ground wires, messenger wires, supporting wires, guy wires and for similar purposes.