ANALYSES OF WHY TWIN TOWERS COLLAPSED
WTC Designs and Mechanisms of Progressive Collapse
NY Times: WTC used UNTESTED technologies, were "A GAMBLE," "lightweight, almost willowy structures," with "Buck Rogers quality" and unknown vulnerabilities.
Original Engineer who Built WTC explains: (1) bomb that destroyed Oklahoma City Murrah Building equivalent of 192 liters of jet fuel, while airplanes that hit WTC had 45,600 liters. (2) No building can withstand aircraft impact
FEMA Report of WTC Collapse, with Useful Diagrams
At WTC, Entire Building Shook -- Damaged -- from aircraft collision and fuel explosion
University of Sydney, Civil Engineering: World Trade Center - Some Engineering Aspects
World Trade Center Study by the Federal Emergency Management Agency
New Yorker Magazine Interviews Leslie Robertson, Chief Engineer who built the WTC Twin Towers, and Others, on Why WTC Collapsed
OBVIOUS Signs of Collapse BEFORE WTC Twin Towers Fell -- Collapse COULD NOT be from demolition, because collapse was NOT sudden
The World Trade Center's Steel Structure Was Buckling [LONG] Before the Collapse
National Institute of Science and Technology responds to "controlled demolition" theory re: World Trade Center
"The World Trade Center and 9/11: A Discussion on Some Engineering Design Issues" presented at the annual conference of the Australian Institute of Building Surveyors.
95% of Debris from WTC Collapse fell OUTSIDE of the footprint of WTC
Bibliograph of "PROGRESSIVE COLLAPSE" of buildings -- "under-researched areas"
WTC Modeling and Simulation Data
PURDUE University 9/11 Attack Simulations Using LS-Dyna
Doctoral Analysis of Progressive Collapse of Steel Buildings (Auburn University): "COMBINED FLEXURAL AND CABLE–LIKE BEHAVIOR OF DUCTILE STEEL BEAMS"
"Why Did the World Trade Center Collapse? Science, Engineering, and Speculation" by Thomas W. Eagar and Christopher Musso
Engineers Explain WTC Collapse (Architecture Week)
Time Magazine: Jet Fuel was EVERYWHERE inside WTC Towers, Witnesses Say
Time Magazine: Aircraft Impact damaged WTC Towers below the impact, below 56th floor: Architect reported: "You could hear the building cracking. It sounded like when you have a bunch of spaghetti, and you break it in half to boil it."
Time Magazine: Aircraft Impact Damaged Entire Building: "Robert Falcon worked in the parking garage at the towers: "When the blast shook it went dark and we all went down,"
Time Magazine: Even as people streamed down the stairs, the cracks were appearing in the walls as the building shuddered and cringed. Steam pipes burst, and at one point an elevator door burst open and a man fell out, half burned alive, his skin hanging off.
TIME Magazine reported in Sept 2001: "The floors above where the plane hit--each floor weighing millions of pounds--were resting on steel that was softening from the heat of the burning jet fuel, softening until the girders could no longer bear the load above. "All that steel turns into spaghetti," explains retired ATF investigator Ronald Baughn. "And then all of a sudden that structure is untenable, and the weight starts bearing down on floors that were not designed to hold that weight, and you start having collapse."
WTC Steel was examined by Worcester Polytechnic Institute Materials Sciences Professors -- WTC Steel was severely DEGRADED by Sulfur-driven Eutectic Reactions
What is Jet Fuel? JP-4 is a blend of gasoline, kerosene and light distillants. The gasoline hydrocarbons in JP-4 cause an extremely low flash point of approximately minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit.
DESIGN DETAILS OF WORLD TRADE CENTER, COMPARED WITH TYPICAL HIGH-RISE BUILDING:
RELATIVELY FLIMSY / WEAK DESIGN OF WTC TWIN TOWERS EXPOSED
The WTC Twin Towers Were Unlike Any Other High Rise Building -- Radically Different Design
Engineering Details of Bending Steel Beams
Mechanics of Progressive Collapse: Learning from World Trade Center
and Building Demolitions. Study by Zdenek P. Bazant and Mathieu Verdure
Aerial Views of WTC Twin Towers Burning
Graphic Illustrating Tipping of top section of WTC Twin Tower
Why Did the World Trade Center Collapse?—Simple Analysis, Journal of Engineering Mechanics ASCE, 9/13/01, By Zdenek P. Bazant and Yong Zhou
BBC News: An analysis of the World Trade Center collapse has challenged a conspiracy theory surrounding the 9/11 attacks.
Progressive Collapse of the World Trade Centre: a Simple Analysis, by University of Cambridge Engineering Professor Seffen
Transcript of NIST Public Meeting in New York City – February 12, 2004, with Public Comments
Mechanical simulation and parameter discussion for the collapse of WTC. Department of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084
Chief Engineer who BUILT the WTC Twin Towers: "No Tower Can Withstand Attack As Jets Get Bigger" and Boeing 767 much larger than Boeing 707
Structural Fire Response and Probable Collapse Sequence of the World Trade Center Towers: NIST Report
"On Debunking 9/11 Debunking." NASA scientist Ryan Mackey's critiques Theologian David Ray Griffin re: WTC Collapse. 306 pages. May 2008.
Aircraft Debris found around World Trade Center
Did the Ban on Asbestos Contribute to Collapse of WTC?
"Red hot" metal reported in WTC Rubble is NOT molten. Molten steel is YELLOw or WHITE hot, not red