Production and Performance of a Kevlar-Armored Deep Sea Cable

This is the fifth and last of a series of papers which report on the development, production and testing of a KEVLAR-armored, deep ocean, coaxial cable. Earlier papers discussed development of the tension members, a prototype cable sequence and the final design of the production cable. This paper reports on the "as built" properties of the same cable. It also discusses experience gained during armoring of the cable, with suggested guidelines for others to follow. Finally, it presents the results of extensive tests conducted on the final 23,000- foot cable-torque and rotation under load, stress/strain, flexure performance under load, breaking strength, breaking mode, and techniques for cable termination.