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n. (context materials science English) The energy needed to fracture a material under standard conditions.
Usage examples of "impact energy".
F'lessan shook his head, unable to deal with such incredible quantities as a mass of 17 million tons and a derived impact energy of 29.
Troubridge, his copilot, and his com tech died instantly, and the impact energy completed what the tail strike had begun.
The Tunguska meteorite, which hit Siberia in 1908, had an impact energy equal to a ten-megaton hydrogen bomb.
Consequently, even a single ton of ice, if moving with sufficient velocity to have substantial impact energy, would cave in the hull as if crashing into a cardboard vessel.
The impact energy then will be on the order of, say, twenty to thirty kilograms of explosives.
They could also dissipate impact energy so fast that only the top few centimeters of material were vaporized, while at the same time they photo-darkened so rapidly that the flash of light was no more than startling even from as close as ten meters.