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    Zine-Coated Steel Wire Rope and Fittings for Highway Guardrail 1. SCOPE LL This specification covers 19 and 25 mm ("V, and {-in.) zine-coated steel ‘wire rope and fitings for use in the consuruction of highway guardrail 1.2 The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as the standard. 2, REFERENCED DOCUMENTS 21 AASHTO Standards: M IIL Zine (Hot Dip Galva- nized) Coatings on Iron and Steel Products M 120 Zine (Slab Zinc) M 232 Zine Coating (Hot- Dip) on fron and Steel Hardware 65. Mass of Coating on nized) Iron or Steet nicles T 244 Methods and Defini- tions for Mechanical Testing of Stee! Products 3. ORDERING INFORMATION 3.1 Orders for wire rope guardrail material purchased to this specification shall include the following: 34.1 Diameter of wire rope, 341.2. Type of wire rope construction, 3.13. Class of zine coating required (Table 2), 34 Quantity of wire rope -and- length per reel, and 3.1.5 AASHTO designation and year of issue NOTE 1—A typical ontering description is as follows: 19 mm (/-in.) diameter, Zinc- Standard Specification for AASHTO DESIGNATION: M 30-96 ASTM DESIGNATION: A 741-90 Coated Wire Rope for Guardrail, Type 1 Con- struction. Class A Coating, 24.4 km (80000 Hineal fe) om fory 610-m (2000-f) reels AASHTO M-30 dated 4. MATERIAL 4.1 Base Meral—The base metal shall be steel made by any process and Shall be of such quality that the finished wire rope and the individual zine-coated wires shall have the properties as pre- seribed in this specification 4.2 Zinc—The slab rine when used for the coating shall be any srade of zine conforming to M 120. 5. MECHANICAL REQUIREMENTS S.A Breaking Sirength—The ine coated steel wire rope shall conform to the mechanical properties in Table 1 when (ested in accordance with T 24+ and employing a suitable gripping device as coveted in Annex A7.3 of T 244. $2 Construction—The zinc-coated ‘wire rope and individual wires shall con- form to the dimension and construction requirements of Table 1. 53° Ductlity of Steei—The individ- val zine-coated wires shall be capable of being wrapped cwo tums in a close helix at a rate not exceeding 15 tums per ‘minute around a cylindrical steel mandei equal to three times the nominal diameter of the wire under test without cracking or breaking of the wire. SA Mass of Zinc Coarng—The class of zine coating shall be specified by the purchaser. The mass of the zine ‘coating on the individual wires for the specified class and appropriate wire size shall not be less than that specified in ‘Tabs 2 wher tested in accordance with the “ripping “ast of T 65, Adhe-ence of Coating—The indi via a zine-e:uied wires shall be capable ot cing wrixped two tums in a close hei at a rats 20t exceeding 15 tums per ‘mir ze aroun: a cylindrical steel mandrel equ: to thre: imes the aominal diameter of 22 wire ter test without the coating cracung of faking to such an extent that any Sac can 22 removed by rubbing with bare Singers. osening or detachment dur- ing =e adher=ce test of superficial small 2c formed by mechanical oisning of te surface of zine-coated wire sha 20t be c-nsidered cause for rejection. 5 Appesrance—The individual wires shall 22 cylindrical in form, of uuniiirm quaty. and :ree of imperfec- tior: not corsistent wich good commer- cial oractice Each wire shall have a con:auous c:ating of zinc of reasonably lunissrm thicszess. 6. WIRE ROPE, 61 The sure rope saall be right regu- lar ay, prefsrmed. and of the type of conszuction saown in Table 1. A right lay 5 define: as a clockwise twist away fror: the obsevver. The type of construc- tor. shall be

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