A socket device for securing an end of a load bearing member includes first socket members and second socket members that are distinct, separate pieces of material. The piezoelectricelectrostrictive actuator is precisely inspected without dissolution and destruction and without actual driving as a product. The layer of insulating material consists of an impressible material remaining permanently elastic, which completely fills the internal interstices between the stranded elements, and it is surrounded by a sliding layer of a material having good sliding characteristics compared with the stranded elements. If the break is of a paid type, then a threshold timer may be started at the beginning of the break that when expires indicates that any remainder of the break is processed as unpaid time.