Why did the world trade center collapse?-Simple analysis

Zdenk P. Baant; Yong Zhou

doi:10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9399(2002)128:1(2)

Why did the world trade center collapse?-Simple analysis

Zdenk P. Baant, Yong Zhou

Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Abstract

This paper presents a simplified approximate analysis of the overall collapse of the towers of World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001. The analysis shows that if prolonged heating caused the majority of columns of a single floor to lose their load carrying capacity, the whole tower was doomed.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2-6
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Volume	128
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9399(2002)128:1(2)
State	Published - Jan 2002

Keywords

Analysis
Buildings
Collapse
Disasters
High-rise
New York
New York City
Terrorism

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Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering

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