This project aims a detailed characterization of materials suitable for damping layers and, based on this, analysis of complex mineral bonded strengthening variants. Small-scale experiments in a split Hopkinson bar serve to determine essential material properties such as strength, deformation behaviour (elastic/plastic or reversible/irreversible), energy absorption and failure modes as well as damage at different speeds and different impactor geometries. In this context, the central question is also to be clarified – which sample form allows conclusions to be drawn about the global behaviour of a flat damping layer. Furthermore, characteristic values result from the tests for further use in numerical investigations and material models, which will be developed in the theoretically oriented PhD projects of GRK 2250/2. Depending on the results, the most promising damping layers or damping systems (e.g. layering of different materials) are selected and applied to large reinforced concrete components. In drop tower tests the global and local component behaviour as well as failure mechanisms and degree of damage are studied. Based on this, a first prognosis model is developed.