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I don't think it even failed under it's rated strength, it was that their supplier for the struts provided sub-par/faulty struts and they couldn't handle the pressure they were supposed to be rated for

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That's what I meant. It was rated for a certain load, but there was a faulty strut in the batch, and it failed well under that rated load.

Isn't that what 'failed under its rated strength' means?

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