Why did world trade center collapse? - Simple analysis

Z. P. Bažant; Y. Zhou

doi:10.1007/s004190100189

Why did world trade center collapse? - Simple analysis

Z. P. Bažant^*, Y. Zhou

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Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	802-806
Number of pages	5
Journal	Archive of Applied Mechanics
Volume	71
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s004190100189
State	Published - Dec 2001

Keywords

Energy dissipation
Failure
Impact
Plastic buckling
Tall buildings

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