part Part One: General Topics -- chapter 1 Ferrocement - an overview -- chapter 2 The future of ferrocement in civil engineering construction -- chapter 3 Saint Budoc and Lambot's washerwomen -- chapter 4 Performance indicators for international networking -- chapter 5 Flood protection with ferrocement -- chapter 6 An economic hollow ferrocement bridge with moderate load capacity -- part Part Two: Housing And Special Structures -- chapter 7 Ferrocement in housing - the future? -- chapter 8 Experimental roofing in Burkina Faso -- chapter 9 System of residential building (SER) -- chapter 10 Ferrocement cluster structures in New Bombay -- chapter 11 deMenil Museum project and potential applications of ferrocement/concrete laminates -- chapter 12 Ferrocement pools -- part Part Three: Cracking -- chapter 13 Cracking: its prediction and engineering significance -- chapter 14 Cracking avoidance in ferrocement using natural zeolite lightweight aggregates -- chapter 15 Influence of mortar shrinkage on first crack strength of ferrocement -- part Part Four: Material Properties And Durability -- chapter 16 Durability Of Barrier Penetranttreated Ferrocements -- chapter 17 Susceptibility Of Ferrocement To Reinforcement Corrosion -- chapter 18 Ultimate moment capacity and crack width of weldmesh ferrocement in corrosive environments -- chapter 19 Failure of a ferrocement beam -- part Part Five: Ferrocement As Formwork -- chapter 20 Structural effectiveness of ferrocement as permanent formwork to reinforced concrete -- chapter 21 An innovative use of ferrocement -- chapter 22 Schlumberger Cambridge Phase 2: design and construction of first floor slab using ferrocement soffit units -- chapter 23 Performance evaluation of RC ferrocement composite beams -- part Part Six: Ferrocement For Repair And Rehabilitation -- chapter 24 Rehabilitation of RC beams using precast ferrocement bonded plates -- chapter 25 Experimental study of ferrocement as a retrofit material for masonry columns -- chapter 26 Investigation into the repair of short square columns using ferrocement -- chapter 27 Design and construction of traditional Thai house using ferrocement -- chapter 28 Some recommendations for the production of ferrocement elements by means of the thermal vapour cure -- part Part Seven: Application Of Applied Research -- chapter 29 Applications of ferrocement through research and development -- chapter 30 Inelastic buckling of ferrocement encased columns -- chapter 31 Tensile, flexural and impact behaviour of ferrocement with chicken wire mesh reinforcement -- part Part Eight: Research Theory -- chapter 32 Effect of coupling stiffnesses on ferrocement strength: a comparison of analysis approaches -- chapter 33 Optimal design of ribbed ferrocement wall elements using genetic algorithms -- chapter 34 Analysis of a double-skin ferrocement wall panel for housing construction -- chapter 35 Considerations on the intensity of environment aggressiveness and micro-regions into which ferrocement elements are introduced -- part Part Nine: Fibre Reinforcement -- chapter 36 Study of the dynamic loading performance and mechanism of SFRHSC -- chapter 37 Flexural behaviour of ferrocement sections with steel fibres -- chapter 38 Ferrocement with fiber reinforced plastic meshes: preliminary investigation -- part Part Ten: Source Materials -- chapter 39 Properties of mortar as influenced by the combination of different types of pozzolana derived from agricultural wastes -- chapter 40 Electrochemical corrosion measurements on reinforcement in ferrocement -- chapter 41 Flexural behavior and durability of ferrocements with polymer dispersion-coated reinforcements -- chapter 42 Biogenic sulphuric acid resistant ferrocement -- chapter 43 Ferrocement structures with reinforced fabrics made with polymer fibres -- chapter 44 IFS: a view of the future.