Design Codes, Manuals, & Standards

Many of the requirements of the Codes and Standards listed below are hard-coded in our software and can optionally be selected by name. However, you should understand that design criteria in PLS-CADD are generic and can be modified to fit almost any international Code or Standard. If the information you are searching for regarding Codes and Standards is not included below it is because we do not have it. Please feel free to provide updated information or suggestions for additional references.

Other References:

• Design Loads and Philosophies

  • "Wind Loading: Uncertainties and Honesty Suggest Simplification" A discussion by Dr. Alain H. Peyrot (Download from PLS).

  • Guidelines for Electrical Transmission Line Structural Loading, ASCE Manual 74 - 2009

  • Design Criteria for Overhead Transmission Lines, Draft Standard No. 60826, International Electrotechnical Commission, Geneva, Switzerland, 2000

  • Design Manual for High Voltage Transmission Lines, REA Bulletin 1724E-200, Rural Electrification Administration, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Sept. 1992.

  • Transmission Line Design Manual, by Holland H. Farr, Western Area Power Administration, United States Department of the Interior, 1980

  • Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures, SEI/ASCE 7-02 (SEI/ASCE Standard No. 7-02)

  • C22.3 Overhead Systems, Canadian Standards Assocation

• Transmission Structures

  • Design of Latticed Steel Transmission Structures, ASCE Standard 10-15, 2015

  • ASCE Standard 48-11 (previously ASCE Manual Design of Steel Transmission Pole Structures)

  • Design of Prestressed Concrete Poles, PCI Journal, Vol. 42, No.6, Nov. 1997 - will be available as ASCE publication

  • Specifications and Dimensions for Wood Poles, ANSI 05-1-2017

  • IEEE Trial-Use Design Guide for Wood Transmission Structures, IEEE Std. 751, 1991

  • Design of Guyed Electrical Transmission Structures, ASCE Manual 91, 1997

  • Structural Engineering Handbook, 4th Edition, McGraw Hill, 1997, Section 30 on Transmission and Communication Structures by Peyrot and Brinker

  • AISC: LRFD Manual of Steel Construction - Third Edition

  • RUS Electric Program Bulletins and Informational Publications

  • Transmission Line Design Manual, United States Department of the Interior Water and Power Resource Service, 1980 by Holland H. Farr

• Conductor Design and Behavior

  • Sag-Tension Calculation Methods for Overhead Lines, CIGRE Brochure 324, Task Force B2.12.3

  • Southwire's Overhead Conductor Manual

  • Aluminum Electrical Conductor Handbook, Third Edition, Aluminum Association, 1989

  • Wind-Induced Conductor Motion, an EPRI Transmission Line Reference Book, EPRI Project 792, 1979

  • IEEE Standard for Calculating the Current-Temperature Relationship of Bare Overhead Conductors, IEEE Std. 738, 1993

  • IEEE Guide for Describing the Effects of High Temperature Operation on Conductors, Connectors, and Conductor Hardware for Overhead Transmission Lines, IEEE proposed standard under development, 1999

• Foundations

  • IEEE Guide for Transmission Structure Foundation Design, IEEE Std. 691, 2001

• Construction

  • IEEE Guide to the Installation of Overhead Transmission Line Conductors, IEEE Std. 524, 1992

  • Transmission Line Construction, an IEEE Standards Collection, 1994