This Standard specifies the dimension, appearance and permissible deviation, technical requirements, test methods, inspection rules and packaging, marking as well as quality certificate of the carbon steel wire for optical fiber cable tension members. .
This Standard applies to zinc-coated and phosphatized round carbon steel wire (hereinafter referred to as steel wire) for the reinforcing parts of optical fibers and cables and other similar purposes.
2 Normative References
The following documents contain provisions which, through reference in this Standard, constitute provisions of this Standard. For dated references, subsequent amendments to (excluding any corrigendum), or revisions of, any of these publications do not apply. However, Parties to agreements based on this Standard are encouraged to investigate the possibility of applying the most recent editions of the standards indicated below. For undated references, the latest editions of the document referred to apply.
GB/T 228 Metallic Materials - Tensile Testing at Ambient Temperature
GB/T 238 Metallic Materials - Wire - Reverse Bend Test
GB/T 239 Metallic Materials Wire Torsion Test
GB/T 1839 Steel Product Zinc Coating Mass Testing Method
GB/T 2103 General Provisions for Checking, Packing, Marking and Quality Certification of Steel Wire
GB/T 2976 Metallic Materials - Wire - Wrapping Test
GB/T 4354 Hot Rolled Quality Carbon Steel Wire Rod
GB/T 8653 Metallic Materials; Determination of Youngs Modulus, Chord Modulus, Tangent Modulus and Poisson
GB/T 9792 Conversion Coatings on Metallic Materials - Determination of Coating Mass Per Unit Area - Gravimetric Methods
3 Terms and Definitions
For the purposes of this Standard, the terms and definitions established in GB/T 228 and those listed below apply.
Phosphated steel wire
Finished steel wire via phosphating with phosphate coating on the surface.
