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The present invention provides an impact resistant sheet material that helps provide exterior walls of a building with resistance to impacts so that the building structure can meet building standards, such as the Miami-Dade County Large Missile Impact Test, for resisting impacts in high wind areas.

The present invention provides an impact resistant sheet material that helps provide exterior walls of a building with resistance to impacts so that the building structure can meet building standards, such as the Miami-Dade County Large Missile Impact Test, for resisting impacts in high wind areas. In one embodiment, sheet material comprises an impact resistant layer that attached to fibrous substrate. The impact resistant layer provides impact resistance to the sheet material so that a wall structure employing the sheet material is able to successfully withstand an impact from a projectile comprising a 9 pound, 7 foot two-by-four (“2×4”) traveling at a speed of at least 34 miles per hour. The impact resistant sheet material may comprise a moisture vapor permeable, water-impermeable barrier layer having a hydrohead of at least 55 cm and a moisture vapor transmission rate of at least 35 g/m2/day. Such a sheet material is particularly useful in barrier applications, such as a house wrap.

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That which is claimed: 1. An impact resistant sheet material comprising:a moisture vapor permeable, water-impermeable, polymeric barrier layer having a hydrohead of at least 55 cm and a moisture vapor transmission rate of at least 35 g/m2/day; andan impact resistant layer attached to the barrier lay

That which is claimed: 1. An impact resistant sheet material comprising:a moisture vapor permeable, water-impermeable, polymeric barrier layer having a hydrohead of at least 55 cm and a moisture vapor transmission rate of at least 35 g/m2/day; andan impact resistant layer attached to the barrier layer, the impact resistant layer comprising a fabric layer having at least two pluralities of strands that extend in different directions and intersect each other, the impact resistant layer having a tensile strength of at least 445 Newtons, an elongation that is between 2 and 20 percent, and an Impact Resistance as measured by the Free-Falling Dart Method of greater than about 0.7 pounds, and wherein the strands of the impact resistant layer comprise fiberglass.