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However, to ensure vehicle safety, the crashworthiness of adhesively bonded structures must be assessed to guarantee that they can withstand high impact loads and also absorb the energy involved. Therefore, it is important to follow the rising interest in this type of bonding with experimental data that help to understand adhesives\u2019 behavior under impact conditions. In this article, a new drop weight impact test machine is proposed and its main features are highlighted, namely, the rotational anti-rebound subsystem and the U-shaped impactor, which are specifically designed to test adhesive joints. 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