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Mete Sozen, a professor of structural engineering and a lead investigator on the simulation, said Purdue researchers hope their work leads to better structural design and building codes to prevent similar collapses.
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Learning something from the collapse is much more productive and benificial than concocting conspiracy theories. An unanticipated failure mode has been discovered and we learn from it and make changes to prevent future occurances. |
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JEROME DA GNOME
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From the article: ""One thing it does point out... is the absolute essential nature of fireproofing steel structures," Hoffmann told The Associated Press. "This is something that wasn't done originally in the World Trade Center when it was built. It wasn't code at that time."
I thought according to NIST the impact knocked the fireproofing off. Did Hoffman read the NIST report? This statement makes no sense.
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JEROME DA GNOME
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Posted - 06/21/2007 : 07:34:27 [Permalink]
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The simulation shows the wings cutting several steel columns?
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Dave W.
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Posted - 06/21/2007 : 08:24:43 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by JEROME DA GNOME
From the article: ""One thing it does point out... is the absolute essential nature of fireproofing steel structures," Hoffmann told The Associated Press. "This is something that wasn't done originally in the World Trade Center when it was built. It wasn't code at that time."
I thought according to NIST the impact knocked the fireproofing off. Did Hoffman read the NIST report? This statement makes no sense. |
Hoffman is mistaken. Fireproofing was required by the building codes followed by PANYNJ, as per the memorandum of understanding PANYNJ had with the city.
There aren't enough details in the NIST report or on Wikipedia to tell whether tenants began moving into WTC1 before the entire building was fireproofed or if the spraying was complete just before tenants moved in. Either way, it's clear that the coating wasn't being sprayed on as soon as each floor was finished, but instead they waited until most of the contruction was finished before even starting to fireproof. Whether or not Hoffman considers that to be not fireproofed as it was built, you'd have to ask him. |
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Posted - 06/21/2007 : 11:59:19 [Permalink]
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By the way, when I said the computer simulation was "high quality," I was referring to the inclusion of formulae for the interactions of the physics and materials. The rendering itself would be considered crude by modern computer gaming standards. In a contemporary PC's graphics processing card, frames are rendered in greater detail in real time at dozens of frames per second. But, though such "GPUs" even calculate physical interactions, they don't do so with the attention to material science that the Purdue simulation uses.
Originally posted by JEROME DA GNOME
The simulation shows the wings cutting several steel columns?
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Yes, of course.
Everything in the plane was traveling at about the speed of a .45 caliber pistol bullet. And don't forget the titanium of the big engine shafts: that stuff is near indestructible. I recall the case of a Soviet jet fighter whose pilot bailed out over the Soviet Union after he decided his aircraft was going to crash. The plane continued on autopilot (unintercepted) all the way to the Netherlands, where it smashed into several buildings and killed a number of people. I remember seeing a photo, which showed the plane, its titanium fuselage still largely intact, in the rubble.
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Posted - 06/21/2007 : 12:14:01 [Permalink]
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Well actually it was travelling at closer to 700MPH than the 1100+MPH that a 45 bullet would go, though the increase in mass from a bullet to a plane engine will more than make up for the difference in lost force.
So yes a plane engine+wing travelling at 600+mph would go through a steel column like butter. Sorry to burst your 'every conspiracy is true' bubble. |
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Posted - 06/21/2007 : 12:21:51 [Permalink]
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Even with entirely-aluminum construction (which it isn't), the wings are still designed to support several times the plane's full weight, and to be constantly buffeted by 700-MPH winds.
Then, they went through the columns perpendicular to the direction in which the columns were designed to be strongest. The result shouldn't be surprising. |
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HalfMooner
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Posted - 06/21/2007 : 13:46:10 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf
Well actually it was travelling at closer to 700MPH than the 1100+MPH that a 45 bullet would go, though the increase in mass from a bullet to a plane engine will more than make up for the difference in lost force.
So yes a plane engine+wing travelling at 600+mph would go through a steel column like butter. Sorry to burst your 'every conspiracy is true' bubble.
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That was just off the top of my head, from 45-year memory*, but it was accurate enough. According to Wiki, the standard military (and the usual civilian) chambering for the .45 ACP round gives 850 fps muzzle velocity. (Yes, there are much faster chamberings.) Assuming the standard chambering, it would translate to 579.3093167701863 Miles per Hour, somewhat slower than the speed of the plane.
* A high school buddy and I were firing dangerous rockets made from matchhead-packed CO2 cylinders, with a water pipe as a launcher. Our test range was a junior high school playing field (school was out for the summer). He, being the whiz at math, did the calculations, coming up with a figure for our little missiles in the high subsonic range that, as I recall, nearly matched the ACP .45 muzzle velocity.
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Posted - 06/21/2007 : 18:03:31 [Permalink]
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900fps (an average .45 muzzle velocity) gives you ~614MPH.
Copper jacketed lead can dent, and penetrate, steel at those velocities. There is no question that reinforced structural alluminum and titanium can sheer through structural steel at those speeds.
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JEROME DA GNOME
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Posted - 06/21/2007 : 18:45:46 [Permalink]
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http://www.globalaircraft.org/planes/b737.pl
530 mph
http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=246
Military version does 564 MPH
Looks like you all should do some research before you make pronouncements.
By the way tests were done to show how the fire proofing was dislodged allowing the steel to heat to the point of failure. I am surprised this researcher did not know this.
Do you usually believe research that has a fatal know flaw?
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Posted - 06/21/2007 : 19:16:58 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by JEROME DA GNOME
Looks like you all should do some research before you make pronouncements. |
As should you, Jerome. Both WTC attack planes were not 737's, but 767-200's. According to Wiki, they cruise at 530 mph.
According to the Wiki articles on the two WTC aircraft, Flight 11 was flying at 466 mph at impact, while Flight 175 was doing 590 mph.
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JEROME DA GNOME
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Posted - 06/21/2007 : 19:28:11 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Originally posted by JEROME DA GNOME
Looks like you all should do some research before you make pronouncements. |
As should you, Jerome. Both WTC attck planes were not 737's, but 767-200's. According to Wiki, they cruise at 530 mph.
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I was wrong, 767, not 737.
You all were wrong about the speed. They do not fly at speeds of 600+ or 700 mph. Please post your retraction below.
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JEROME DA GNOME
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Posted - 06/21/2007 : 19:29:38 [Permalink]
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By the way tests were done to show how the fire proofing was dislodged allowing the steel to heat to the point of failure. I am surprised this researcher did not know this.
Do you usually believe research that has a fatal know flaw?
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What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. - Bertrand Russell |
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HalfMooner
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Posted - 06/21/2007 : 19:32:54 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by JEROME DA GNOME
By the way tests were done to show how the fire proofing was dislodged allowing the steel to heat to the point of failure. I am surprised this researcher did not know this.
Do you usually believe research that has a fatal know flaw?
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"Knowing" or suspecting something to be true is not enough. Tests are required for proof.
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Posted - 06/21/2007 : 19:37:22 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Originally posted by JEROME DA GNOME
By the way tests were done to show how the fire proofing was dislodged allowing the steel to heat to the point of failure. I am surprised this researcher did not know this.
Do you usually believe research that has a fatal know flaw?
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"Knowing" or suspecting something to be true is not enough. Tests are required for proof.
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Test his words. His words show that he did not have needed knowledge to preform the simulation. If the input of data is incorrect, the outcome will also be incorrect.
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What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. - Bertrand Russell |
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Purdue U study supports 9/11 report
