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Designated Fiber Stress in Wood Poles by bcbian is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document summarizes the history of standards for wood utility poles in the United States. It discusses how early standards in the 1900s focused on pole durability and cost, and recognized southern pine and western redcedar as suitable species. Standards evolved to incorporate testing data to quantify pole strength and develop a classification system. The current ANSI standard from 2002 updated how pole strength is defined based on test data showing strength decreases with pole size. It established pole
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