I am sure the USN have much data on what gives a succesful arrested landing given the matter of wire behaviour (after it is trampled by the wheels) just before the hook gets to it, as well as hook bounce following the hook hitting the deck (and before the aircraft has touched down).
I am no expert in this stuff but back in the 60s I did have to do far too may run in arrests in a Scimitar and a Sea Vixen to help Naval Air Department at Bedford develop various arrester gear retarding systems. It was always suggested to me (so far as an aircraft is concerned) that once you have completely sorted the run in case all you then have to fiddle with is the hook damper characteristics to sort out hook bounce.