BS 4565:1990

Foreword
Committees responsible
Specification
Section one. General
1. Scope
2. Information to be supplied by the purchaser
3. Manufacture
4. Inspection and testing
5. Selection of test pieces and number of tests
6. Methods of testing
7. Retests
8. Identification
Section two. Specific requirements for standard strength
wire
9. Tolerance on nominal diameter
10. Tensile strength and stress at 1% elongation
11. Torsion test
12. Elongation
13. Steel ductility wrap test
14. Galvanizing
Section three. Specific requirements for high strength
wire
15. Tolerance on nominal diameter
16. Tensile strength and stress at 1% elongation
17. Elongation
18. Torsion test
19. Steel ductility wrap test
20. Galvanizing
Appendix
A. Conversions of tensile strength and stress at
    1% elongation
Tables
1. Initial stresses to be applied
2. Tensile strength and stress at 1% elongation
3. Properties for high strength galvanized steel wire
    for aluminium conductors, steel re-inforced
4. Conversions of tensile strength and stress at 1%
    elongation

Requirements for wire for use as the core of aluminium conductors to BS 215:Part 2, in standard strength from 1.18 mm to 5.0 mm diameter and high strength in diameters according to tensile strength. Test methods and requirements, tolerances and identification.