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through a final check and is now scheduled for publication in the July 2010 issue of the Journal of Engineering Mechanics.
The Bazant theory can evidently not be verified in a laboratory or in reality for any structure of any size. Actually the whole theory is complete fantasy: Upper, structural part C would either bounce or get locally damaged (partly or completely) when contacting and putting pressure on structural top part A after a gravity drop and would then get stuck up on top of parts A. No structure of any size can be crushed by an upper part of itself from top down by gravity.
No structure of any size can be crushed by an upper part of itself from top down by gravity.
Originally posted by john124
reply to post by anon72
No structure of any size can be crushed by an upper part of itself from top down by gravity.
I'm not sure that is exactly true.
Originally posted by john124
reply to post by anon72
No structure of any size can be crushed by an upper part of itself from top down by gravity.
I'm not sure that is exactly true.
Originally posted by anon72
If what you say is correct, why isn't the report/paper easily discredited instead of being published in an engineering magazine?
Bjorkman posts as "Heiwa" on the JREF forum:
Björkman claims that no planes hit the Twin Towers or the Pentagon or crashed near Shanksville, which makes him a rarity even among the most delusional "truthers": a quadruple no-planer.
Björkman claims that all evidence of the aircraft impacts is fake and all witness accounts are invalid. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again.
Björkman claims that if 30 stories of one of the Twin Towers was dropped on the lower 80 stories from a height of two miles, it would bounce off without damaging the lower portion. And again.
Björkman says a Tower wouldn't be destroyed if a 60-million-pound block of ice was dropped on it, then denies making that claim.
Björkman claims that all photo and video evidence showing severe fires and structural failure in the WTC buildings is fake. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again.
Björkman claims that WTC 7 was demolished by a vacuum.
Björkman believes that the authors of the NIST WTC reports don't exist.
Björkman believes that steel structures are indestructible, even by nuclear weapons. And again. And again.
However, Björkman also believes that 16,500-22,000 lbs of high explosives may have been used to demolish each Twin Tower...with no detectable detonations.
Björkman is an engineer who believes that weight = mass. No, really.
Björkman believes his house would survive an asteroid impact.
Björkman again attempts to revise the laws of physics.
Björkman says a bathroom scale will register the same weight whether you stand on it or jump on it.
Björkman says the Twin Tower fires were "minor office fires."
Björkman makes the egregiously false claim that the FDNY said it could handle the fires in the Towers.
Björkman believes that columns become stronger when their supports are removed.
Björkman believes that the structures of the Twin Towers were comparable to cheese, pizza boxes, match boxes, rubber balls, sponges, a bicycle running into a wall, a child jumping on a bed, a tower of sushi, and a tower of lemons.
Björkman has been nominated for the JREF forum "Stundie," an award for the looniest conspiracist statement of the month, far more times than anyone, and has been voted the "winner" several times. His avoidance of mountains of facts and expertise, his complete ignorance of the most basic engineering concepts, and his insistence that special laws of physics apply in his world, are perhaps surpassed only by the inimitable Judy "Star Wars Beams" Wood. Read about the errors he makes in his website paper here.
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Originally posted by GoodOlDave
Between the gaping holes left in the building
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
the reports that the impacting wreckage destroyed the central stairwells
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
it is irrefutable that the plane collisions and the resulting fires did a great amount of damage to the structural integrity of the towers
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
If this area was damaged enough so that it would no longer be able to support the upper structure, it would collapse.
Originally posted by anon72
See, this is why I have stayed out of this fight.... just so confusing and I just can't comprehend our gov't have anything to do with any of the attack.
Originally posted by Curious_Agnostic
You're right, it isn't.
Originally posted by _BoneZ_
What's that got to do with anything? The cores were relatively minutely damaged. NIST even says so on this point. NIST calculates that there was only 14%-15% of the structure in the impact zones that was damaged. That leaves 85% of the structure intact.
Originally posted by Joey Canoli
Minutely damaged? What a crock.
Originally posted by Joey Canoli
Originally posted by _BoneZ_
Please provide a source or concede. Thanks.
Originally posted by _BoneZ_
Just as I thought. You don't have a source. It is only a "crock" to you in your opinion.
Originally posted by _BoneZ_
NIST estimates that 6-8 core columns were damaged.
NIST's calculations on load distribution are just that: calculations