IEEE 1142-2009

This guide provides cable manufacturers and users with extensive information on the design, testing, application, and installation of low, medium, and high-voltage power cables, as well as communication, control and instrument cables that make use of metal-plastic laminates as radial-moisture barriers. This guide addresses additional means of protecting cables from the entrance of moisture through the use of polymeric super absorbent materials for longitudinal water blocking of stranded conductors and other spaces within cables. The alternate use of extruded metal sheaths or bare, longitudinally applied, metallic tapes with sealed seams will likewise be addressed.