Why did World Trade Center collapse? – Simple analysis |
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| Authors: | Z. P. Baz˘ant Y. Zhou |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Civil Engineering and Materials Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA e-mail: z-bazant@northwestern.edu, US |
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| Abstract: | Summary Simplified approximate analysis of the overall collapse of the World Trade Center towers is presented. It is shown that if prolonged heating causes the majority of columns of a single floor to lose their load-carrying capacity, the whole tower is doomed. Received and accepted for publication 2 October 2001 |
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| Keywords: | : Impact, Tall buildings, Failure, Plastic buckling, Energy dissipation |
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