(1)
Where steel piles are used in deep foundations and act as permanent load-carrying members, the steel shall conform with one of the following standards:
(a)
ASTM A252, “Standard Specification for Welded and Seamless Steel Pipe Piles,”
(b)
ASTM A283/A283M, “Standard Specification for Low and Intermediate Tensile Strength Carbon Steel Plates,”
(c)
ASTM A1008/A1008M, “Standard Specification for Steel, Sheet, Cold-Rolled, Carbon, Structural, High-Strength Low-Alloy, High-Strength Low-Alloy with Improved Formability, Solution Hardened, and Bake Hardenable,”
(d)
ASTM A1011/A1011M, “Standard Specification for Steel, Sheet and Strip, Hot-Rolled, Carbon, Structural, High-Strength Low-Alloy, High-Strength Low-Alloy with Improved Formability, and Ultra-High Strength,” or
(e)
CSA G40.21, “Structural quality steel.”