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The resistance to impact loads; usually expressed as the foot pounds of energy absorbed in breaking a standard specimen. A test designed to ascertain the punishment a cable configuration can absorb, without physical or electrical breakdown, by impacting with a given weight, dropped a given distance, in a controlled environment. The ability of a material to absorb the energy of a load delivered rapidly to a member.
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