SOME EXPERIMENTS IN DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION WITH FERRO-CEMENT, January 4, 1960 MEETING,
  The Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland, by Lyal D.G. Collen, 1960, 15 pages.

This paper is an account of some experimental work and a minor construction project in Ferro-Cement. It can be divided into four convenient sections.

In the first section the results of a series of experiments, designed to produce values for mechanical properties of Ferro-Cement are given. The results in this section have been published recently in Civil Engineering and Public Works Review and are reproduced by kind permission.

In the second section the economical implications of the results of these experiments are explored and further experimental results are given for the case in which expanded metal rather than woven mesh is used as the reinforced material. The design and construction of a small cantilever canopy in which Ferro-Cement are used to span 26 ft. is described in the next section.