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originally posted by: LaBTop
And still, this is not at all the calculator to use for a complicated, natural collapse of a steel columned building.
Which involved plasticity, torque, friction, changing angular moments, rotation or rotational motion, linear velocity, angular velocity, deformation, moments of inertia, and lots of other forces or parameters.
This one is the one for that famous billiard ball experiment thrown off a WTC roof.
To calculate the impact force of that one, just fill in the height of the Twin towers, say 360 m, and a weight of 0.5 kg.
Btw, when you change a parameter, after that you press Enter.
Try changing the distance traveled after impact to 0.000001 meter. Then F = 1764000000 N.
If you change it again, to 1 meter, than F = K.E. = 1764 Joule - Newton.
originally posted by: LaBTop
A reply to: wmd_2008
Impact Force from Falling Object.
Its not a falling object, its a FAILING object.
You want to throw the whole mass of a WTC tower top down on the rest of the still standing tower, from a distance of a floor height (3.60 m) with no resistance at all, i.o.w. through AIR.....
NO EXPLOSIVE required you DON'T understand the method of failure and again you repeat the same nonsense as OTHERS that don't understand.
The MASS from above was falling onto a rigid structure that would try to resist
originally posted by: GenRadek
a reply to: LaBTop
And do you know why it was not accounted for? I'll give you a hint: It wasn't because of a sinister plot by (insert favorite boogie-man here).
originally posted by: LaBTop
A reply to: wmd_2008
Impact Force from Falling Object.
Its not a falling object, its a FAILING object.
You want to throw the whole mass of a WTC tower top down on the rest of the still standing tower, from a distance of a floor height (3.60 m) with no resistance at all, i.o.w. through AIR.....
What about all the still intact exterior and interior steel columns? The majority indeed.
Did you even read in the NIST reports, how NIST tried to get a percentage figure on damaged inner and outer columns? The outer ones could be quite securely counted, but the inner ones was just one big guessing game from them.
originally posted by: smurfy
originally posted by: LaBTop
A reply to: wmd_2008
Impact Force from Falling Object.
Its not a falling object, its a FAILING object.
You want to throw the whole mass of a WTC tower top down on the rest of the still standing tower, from a distance of a floor height (3.60 m) with no resistance at all, i.o.w. through AIR.....
Agreed,
I don't know why, (yes I do) some people persist in this way, besides in both collapses of the twin towers, much of the collapse above the points of impact from the aircraft were asymmetric meaning leaving even less mass to impact directly below. The North tower with the mast, does show the mast going down first before anything else and indicates the core was failing in a uniform way but we also know, (1) the mast also then tilted and then fell asymmetrically along with the rest of the building above the aircraft impact point, (2) that the north tower core stood in part for a short time after the rest of the building had gone. Something of a problem then, unless the North tower core had a 'drop and stop' event momentarily, enough for the rest of the building to fall away, even exacerbate it, however it still means the core had failed far below in the first instance.
originally posted by: wmd_2008
SERIOUSLY how anyone could think the THOUSANDS of tons of mass falling couldn't destroy the buildings makes me glad you guys have nothing to do with the construction and design of buildings! (well I hope YOUR NOT)
A little while ago I posted in a thread that mentioned the offices that were impacted and I found some interesting results:
www.abovetopsecret.com...
www.abovetopsecret.com...
www.abovetopsecret.com...
I dont see any accounting offices, but I do see this:
Army Office of Administrative Assistant
www.oaa.army.mil...
Here are the offices again:
Now explain just why they would stick the records of the entire DoD budget in the US Navy Office or the "Army - Office of Administrative Assistant"?
Now the Office of the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army works under the Department of the Army Resource Management. So about the only "accounting" equipment affected was Army budgets, and not the entire DoD Budget. So this does not make any sense. Since when is the Army Budget the entire DoD's budget?
But wait, according to you, the plane was off course. So then that means the plane would have missed the "records" to be destroyed. So are you saying that they needed to scramble and destroy them by hand to conform with the "pre-planned" impact route? Or they forgot just where the records were held?
You know, it kinda hard to believe they would go through all this trouble to destroy records when all they really needed was this:
originally posted by: GenRadek
a reply to: smurfy
But it went down. Down as is through the structure. Due to the design of the WTC, this was possible as the way the floors were connected and designed. There was no stopping that collapse.
originally posted by: GenRadek
a reply to: smurfy
The top section that fell did most damage to the top of the core, and a bit below. Later on it was just a jumbled mass that was no longer solid, and fell around and through the core structure. By that point the lower floors fell around the core as the exterior columns peeled away. The rest of the building came down. The core itself stood until gravity overcame the resistance and it fell too.
The top section that fell did most damage to the top of the core, and a bit below. Later on it was just a jumbled mass that was no longer solid, and fell around and through the core structure. By that point the lower floors fell around the core as the exterior columns peeled away. The rest of the building came down. The core itself stood until gravity overcame the resistance and it fell too.
"No conclusive evidence was found to indicate that pre-collapse fires were sever enough to have a significant effect on the microstructure that would have resulted in weakening of the steel structure." NIST NCSTAR 1-3C, p. 235
no evidence the type of joining methods, materials, or welding procedures used was improper NIST 1-3 p.99
recovered bolts were stronger than typical. NIST 1-2 p.133
"no core column examined showed temp. above 250C" NIST 1-3 6.6.2
NCSTAR1-3 7.7.2 "because no steel was recovered from WTC7,it is not possable to make any statements about it's quality"
"NIST did not test for the residue from explosives or accelerants" wtc. nist. gov/pubs/factsheets/faqs_8_2006. htm
A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request was successful in obtaining the release of a large number of the drawings in late 2011.[2] Review of the released WTC 7 drawings showed that there were two serious structural feature omissions from the NIST analyses relevant to the NIST “collapse initiation” theory. They were:
1. Steel plate stiffeners that provided critical support for girder A2001.[3]
2. Floor beams S3007, G3007, and K3007, which provided lateral support for beam G3005.[4]
Analyses performed by independent engineers show that when the stiffeners and lateral support beams are included, NIST’s probable collapse sequence is impossible, because:
1. The girder flange for column 79 could not bend or fail with the stiffeners present.[5]
2. Beam G3005 – which NIST claimed buckled from thermal expansion and led to the collapse of WTC 7 – could not have buckled if G3005’s omitted lateral support floor beams S3007, G3007, and K3007 were present.[6]
--snip--
Conclusion
NIST’s claim that the collapse of WTC 7 was initiated when Girder A2001 was pushed off its seat at Column 79 is untenable.
With the alleged initiating event ruled out, all of NIST’s claims about subsequent structural failures must be considered baseless and invalid.
originally posted by: smurfy
originally posted by: wmd_2008
SERIOUSLY how anyone could think the THOUSANDS of tons of mass falling couldn't destroy the buildings makes me glad you guys have nothing to do with the construction and design of buildings! (well I hope YOUR NOT)
Are you trying to get this thread shut down with Ad Hominum remarks in the hope of a even bigger response? Well I ain't biting.
As for BOTH the twin towers, it's as plain as the nose on your face that much of the material above the points of aircraft impact went off to the side.
A picture of the South Tower,
The lean over of the upper part of the North Tower was much more severe, it practically fell off in one go.
What lean over of the North Tower do you actually know which tower is which