In the urban warfare of today, even structures with partial walls and ceilings can become a vital shelter to military personnel. While these buildings can provide a hiding place to treat the wounded or set up communications outposts, they are often civilian structures that have not been built to withstand wartime hazards such as explosives or shrapnel.
In an effort to provide a kind of mobile safe-room for soldiers in urban combat, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers debuted a new piece of technology at the Pentagon’s DOD Lab Day on May 14.
Reinforcing structures to save lives
Nick Boone, a mechanical engineer for the U.S.A.C.E. Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, Mississippi designed a material that has been dubbed ‘ballistic wallpaper’. This thin, durable composite is an adhesive-backed sheet of polymer-laminated kevlar fibers that can be unrolled and used to cover walls that would otherwise shatter under fire.
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