Design and Construction Guidance for Community Safe Rooms
FEMA 361, Second Edition/August 2008

APPENDIX E - WALL SECTIONS THAT PASSED PREVIOUS MISSILE IMPACT TESTS

The following sheets document the performance of wall sections that passed previous missile impact tests (standards held by the first edition of FEMA 361). Information is provided for each wall section and contains a description of the wall construction (e.g., stud wall with plywood and/or metal sheathing, stud wall with concrete in?ll, reinforced CMU wall, insulating concrete form [ICF] wall), cross-section illustration, test missile speed, and description of damage. It is important to note that the inclusion of a wall section here does not signify that the section will necessarily pass the current missile impact standard tests, or give the wall sections listed as passing previous tests certification to the more recent standards upheld by this publication and the ICC-500. However, these sections have passed tests held to previous standards that, in some cases, may have been more stringent than current standards. This section is to be used merely as a method of determining which wall sections could be considered for use in a safe room application from the knowledge gained from previous testing performed.