ASTM B416 Alumoweld Wire OHGW Aluminum Clad Steel Wire

It outlasts other materials in corrosive environments, significantly lowering maintenance and replacement costs. Compared with pure aluminum wire, aluminum clad steel wire offers tremendous savings.
Aluminum clad steel wire has excellent property of corrosion resistance. Its strength and conductivity remain unchanged in any atmosphere where aluminum clad steel material is satisfactory, especially those known to be corrosive from industrial or atmospheric conditions.
This assurance against corrosion is obtained through the application of a thick covering of pure aluminum which provides a substantial barrier of protective metal. The cladding has a continuous, strong metallic bond to the steel core that will not crack or flake.
alumoweld guy wire also has excellent strength advantage which provides strength which is greater than or equal to other overhead ground wires. When used in a strand for overhead ground wire,its high strength permits greater span lengths, less sag and heavier loads under storm loading conditions.
Referring to the strength and sag performance, Aluminum clad steel wire has the lighter weight.Due to its thick cladding of aluminum, aluminum clad steel wire is lighter than a steel strand of equivalent size.
Because the lighter weight, combined with high strength, it permits aluminum clad steel wire to be installed to the same sags as steel with correspondingly lower tensions and tower stresses on the towers or supporting structures.