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originally posted by: cestrup
a reply to: wmd_2008
You and everyone else acts as if the bottom 3/4s of the building isn't pushing upwards with the exact same force as being pushed down. You act as if the entire structure was compromised when in reality a fraction of it was. Your model cannot, for the last time, explain the acceleration downwards treating the building as if it were of no structural integrity. Who would have thought that a couple 767s, some fire/jetfuel cocktail, sagging trusses (my favorite), and floor slabs could do the job demo experts plan over months? Oh, can you show me a real world example of fire-proofed steel being weakened by fire and sagging or do I have to trust the authorities on that as well?
originally posted by: OFFTHEGRID
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a reply to: darkbake
originally posted by: Biigs
a reply to: hellobruce
The entire building was steel framed and concrete floors.
Concrete doesnt turn to dust after an hour of jet fuel burning on it, nor does steel weaken.
originally posted by: Biigs
a reply to: hellobruce
And if you know anything about general psychics you will know that while thats major weight, you need to initiate some sort of jolt of the weight to initiate a collapse.
originally posted by: cestrup
a reply to: hellobruce
The problem with it being 21 floors smashing the next is that the building was always able to hold up that mass.
With ejecta spewing out up to 600ft - the mass is actually becoming less and less and just like any collision; it should have came to a halt.
originally posted by: cestrup
This falls apart when the floor is dustified ...
originally posted by: buster2010
Sorry but it doesn't work that way. For the building to completely demolish like the towers did the support structures have to be cut. Not to mention a collapse does not pulverize concrete only an explosion can do that.
originally posted by: abdctd
Has the "dustification" of steel ever been acheived anywhere other than on 9/11?
originally posted by: Sremmos80
a reply to: wmd_2008
What is your documentation of the faulty fireproofing? We know the company that did the fireproofing of the floors the planes hit. Did they come out and admit that it was faulty? I would love to see that release
And pretty much what you are saying is those towers were death traps cause all it would take is a failure of any support system and the towers would fall to the ground as seen on 911.
I have a hard time believing that those buildings were built that poorly..
I have seen the pictures of the core of that tower. What you are telling me is that the top sections of those towers destroyed the bottom sections of those towers, destroying 10 floors a second with almost no resistance.
For some one with 35 years of construction, you sure are using the term dynamic load loosely... quick google search will show that
In civil and structural engineering, dynamic or live loads are loads that can change or are applied with motion
originally posted by: Sremmos80
a reply to: wmd_2008
Ya those pictures show nothing... When and where in the building were they taken. Was it before or after the Turner construction did the fireproofing renovations??
Context, it is kinda important
"Large areas of fireproofing are missing from the core columns in some of the photographs, and the architect who took them, Roger G. Morse, a consultant in Troy, N.Y., said his work had shown that the fireproofing did not stick properly
Mr. Morse, who at the time of his inspections was a consultant to the manufacturer of the fireproofing, said his examinations had never reached above the 78th floor in either tower, but that the nature and dimensions of the problem convinced him the failings of the fireproofing would be found on virtually all parts of the buildings.
Mr. Morse said his inspections on several floors also found problems with the fireproofing of the lightweight, weblike trusses that held up the floors. He said his inspections, which began in 1986 and continued intermittently until June 2000, showed stretches of the tubelike structural steel supporting the trusses without any fireproofing, and other areas of extremely thin fireproofing.
t Mr. Reiss said the problems were caused by the swaying of the buildings in the wind and the impact of elevator cables against the beams. "It was an ongoing maintenance headache," he said.
Although measures were repeatedly taken to prevent the problem, he said, "every March and April when you had these windstorms and the building rocked back and forth, you would still knock some of the fireproofing down."