The progressive development of military destructive weapons ,which means more
expecting pressures , than the values that structures were originally designed to
withstand , demands new techniques to enable the structural elements to resist these
additional effects.
Concrete is representing until now the most important and the greatest
suitable material for different buildings and systems. It needs more investigations and
development to improve its properties and provide it high performance to resist
impact loads, penetration and perforation which resulted from projectiles of modern
destructive weapons, which affect many military structures such as slabs of airports,
runways, protective shelters, and fortification structures
An experimental program was carried out to investigate the efficiency of
using Ferro cement to resist penetration. Ferro-cement is a thin composite material
made of cement mortar reinforced with distributed layers of continuous, relatively
small diameter, wire mesh