ABSTRACT
Masonry walls allow easy intrusion of the impacting vehicles into the impacted buildings. The cause of the damage due to vehicular impacts in masonry walls is the generation of tensile stresses due to "Poisson's effect". Auxetic foams, due to their negative Poisson's ratio, can eliminate these tensile stresses. In this study, masonry walls with and without Auxetic foam renders subject to lateral impact were analysed using an explicit finite element method incorporating shell elements. Vehicular intrusions into buildings through masonry walls frequently occur around the world; from a close look at the images of vehicular intrusions into buildings the following observations can be made: the damage in masonry is limited to be just sufficient for the vehicle to intrude and global collapse of the wall/building is rare. A plate made of masonry made of composite ren-dering material subject to out of plane loading is modelled using an explicit finite element modelling method.
