The gap in cable technology

The critical demands of the oceanographic industry have created the need for more accurately designed and manufactured electro-mechanical cables. Theoretical design procedures have progressed rapidly but there has been a lag in the progress in manufacturing technology. Existing manufacturing procedures generate conditions that produce a significant initial stress unbalance. The result is that actual cable performance is substantially different from that predicted from the design routine. New manufacturing methods have now been developed to overcome this manufacturing technology gap, so that cables can now be manufactured that will more exactly meet the desired specifications.