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This Standard provides requirements for the structural design, construction contract documents, fabrication, and installation of cables for use as structural elements for the support and bracing of buildings, their roofs, and their floors. Herein the word cable denotes a structural member that is a helically twisted wire strand or wire rope, or a parallel wire strand; its suitability as a structural member is essentially its capability for resisting tension. This Standard covers the use, for buildings, of carbon steel and stainless steel cables comprised of wires either uncoated or having a protective coating.