Amidon Labs

Bespoke Mix Design

Amidon Labs develops bespoke ballistic concrete mix designs to a specific threat profile, standard and build condition, then validates them by test.

A Mix Designed to Your Requirement, Not Ours

Most protective construction starts with a product and works backwards to see what it can survive. Amidon Labs works the other way round: you bring the threat profile, the standard you have to meet and the constraints of the build, and we develop a mix to satisfy them.

That matters where an off-the-shelf specification does not fit — an unusual threat, a thickness or weight limit, an aggressive environment, or a requirement that combines ballistic, blast and electromagnetic protection in one assembly.

Two people reviewing a project requirement and drawings at a table, with cut concrete cylinder and cast block samples in front of them

What Development Covers

  • Particle packing optimization — the density and gradation that drive energy absorption.
  • Admixture chemistry — tuned to strength, workability and cure conditions.
  • Fiber selection and dosing — controlling spall and post-impact integrity.
  • Aggregate and reclaimed carbon content — where mass, conductivity or sustainability targets apply.
  • Placement method — cast-in-place, precast panel or fillable block.
Technician proportioning cementitious powder, graded aggregate and reclaimed-carbon granules on a mix-design lab bench

Validated Before It Reaches Your Project

A mix design is only worth the testing behind it. Candidate formulations are modeled, cast, and tested to the standard your specification is written to — UL‑752 and NIJ profiles for ballistic performance, blast pressure response, and toward TEMPEST or MIL‑STD‑188‑125 requirements where electromagnetic shielding is required.

You receive the formulation, the test data and documentation packaged for your submittal and approval chain.

Concrete test panel clamped in a steel test frame at an indoor range, its face marked with ballistic impact craters

Who This Is For

  • Owners and primes with a requirement no catalog product meets
  • Data center builders needing combined physical and electromagnetic protection
  • Government and defense programs working to UFC or DoD criteria
  • Producers developing a regional variant within the Amidon Certified Producer Network
A bound test report with charts and a labeled concrete core sample, packaged as a project submittal

Securing a Facility, a Safe Room, or a Perimeter?

Tell us what you’re protecting and we’ll tell you which material fits, what it costs, and how it installs.

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