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Zinc-Coated (Galvanized) Steel Woven Wire Fence Fabric: Standard Specification For
Zinc-Coated (Galvanized) Steel Woven Wire Fence Fabric: Standard Specification For
1. SCOPE 3.2 Tensile Strength Grades—The wire 4.1.5 Class of coating weight (Section
fabric shall be furnished in one of three 3.3),
grades (Grade 60, Grade 125, and Grade 4.1.6 Certification, if required (Section
1.1 This specification covers zinc-coated 175) according to line wire tensile
steel fence fabric suitable for such uses as 14), and
strength in conformance with Table 2.
farm-field, railroads, and high-way right- There are no tensile strength require- 4.1.7 AASHTO designation and year
of-way and similar fencing, having a ments for vertical stay wires in woven of issue.
series of horizontal (line) wires with fence fabric. 4.2 All rolls of fence fabric accepted by
vertical (stay) wires woven or wrapped the purchaser shall be billed on the basis
around the line wires, forming rectangu- 3.3 Zinc Coating Classes—The wire
fabric shall be furnished with Class 1 or of the original length of the rolls before
lar openings. This specification covers sampling unless changed by contractual
various fabric designs, three tensile Class 3 zinc coating weight for Grade 60
and Class 3 zinc coating weight for arrangement. Fabric covered in this
strength grades, and appropriate zinc specification shall be furnished in 20-rod
coating weight classifications for woven Grades 125 and 175 in accordance with
Table 3. (101-m) rolls.
wire fence fabric.
NOTE 1—A typical ordering description is as
1.2 The values stated in inch-pound units follows: 60 rolls Steel Woven Wire Fabric,
are to be regarded as the standard. The 4. ORDERING INFORMATION 1047-6-1 ½, Grade 60, Class 1 Coating, Certi-
values given in parentheses are for in- fied, to AASHTO M 279
formation only.
4.1 Orders for material purchased under
this specification shall include the
5. MATERIALS AND MANUFAC-
2. REFERENCED DOCUMENTS following information.
TURE
4.1.1 Quantity of each type of steel
2.1 AASHTO Standards: woven wire fence fabric (number of
rolls), 5.1 The base metal of the fabric shall be a
M 120 Zinc (slab zinc) good commercial quality of steel wire.
4.1.2 Name of Material (Steel Woven
T 65 Weight of Coating on Zinc- Wire Fence Fabric), 5.2 Zinc-Coated Wire—The wire shall be
Coated (Galvanized) Iron or zinc coated before fabrication
Steel Articles 4.1.3 Design Number (Section 3.1),
5.3 Zinc for Coating—Slab Zinc, when
T 244 Mechanical Testing of Steel 4.1.4 Tensile strength grade (Section used for coating, shall be any grade of the
Products 3.2), zinc conforming to Specification M 120.
2.2 ASTM Standards:
A 700 Recommended Practice for
Packaging, Marking, and
Loading Steel Products for
Domestic Shipment
2.3 U.S. Federal Standard:
Fed. Std. Nº 123 Marking for
Shipments (Civil Agencies)
2.4 U.S. Military Standards:
MLD-STD-129 Marking for Ship-
ment and Storage
MIL-STD-163 Steel Mill Products,
Preparation for Shipments
and Storage
3. CLASSIFICATION
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M 279 SPECIFICATIONS FOR MATERIALS
486
M 279 SPECIFICATIONS FOR MATERIALS
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