the wall of the socket body and the sleeve resulting compressive and shear forces cause the copper of the sleeve 22 to cold flow around the separate strands of the cable the copper partially fills the gaps or interstices between the strands of the cable as a result of the cold working of the copper it is work hardened to a higher shear strength that increases the strength of the resulting termination as shown in fig3 the cold flow of the copper sleeve increases the contact between the surface of the copper sleeve 22 and the surfaces of the strands 23 instead of a line contact with each strand 23 as occurred before the forced insertion step there now is an area of contact between the sleeve 22 and each strand 23 of the cable friction forces along each of these areas increase the strength of the termination arrangement it is noted that the separate strands 23 may have the same diameter as one another or may have different diameters from one another the strength in the resulting termination arrangement occurs regardless of whether the strand diameters are uniform or of various sizes as shown in fig4 the injection force f i is broken into two force components one force component is the normal component f in which is perpendicular to the surface of the plug 20 and creates two friction forces one of these friction forces is between the copper sleeve 22 and the strands 23 of fig1 the other friction force is between the strands 23 and the socket 10 the other force component in fig4.