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"Wake Up!" wrote in message ... "Wake Up!" wrote in news:Xns978626A6D8B0Atruth@ 130.81.64.196: Whatever, though, for you to simply assume that WTC 7, a steel framed building, totally collapsed near free fall speed from fire, you are definitely not qualified. A qualified engineer would know that steel framed buildings do not completely collapse from fire. Never. Sorry. A qualified engineer knows that steel framed buildings can and do collapse from fire. Indeed the building codes require fire protection material to be applied to structural members to prevent such a collapse. I have in my collection photos of 2 large buildings gutted by fire during the London Blitz of 1940, one was steel framed the other was built using beams of Baltic oak. The steel framed building collapsed, the oak framed building had its timbers charred to a depth of 1" but stayed upright Moreover trusses such as those used in the WTC buildings are notoriously prone to such failures, there's an a excellent article on the risk associated with trusses at http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2005-132/ Fire protection cannot ensure that buildings stand indefinitely. They are designed to ensure adequate time to evacuate the building which is what happened in WTC 7 Of course if the fire is preceded by an impact that pre-weakens the structure and blocks the stairwells from above the impact point complete evacuation will not be possible and the building will collapse early. ALL the qualified engineers who have reviewed the evidence know what caused the WTC collapse and it wasnt thermite or explosives, it was fire and impact damage. The evidence of truss failure is incontrivertable and the subsequant failure mechanism of buckling is clearly evidenced on the video. The lessons of the WTC collapse is that such truss construction techniques should be avoided for high rise buildings, fortunately they are not widely used which is why previous high rise fires didnt lead to progressive collapse. Keith ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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