WTC Claims Dispute, $7.1 Billion at Stake
Features • September 2, 2002
Despite recent court ordered settlement procedures, the legal dispute pitting Swiss Re and 21 other insurance companies against Silverstein Properties, the master leaseholder on the twin towers of ...
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Subject: WTC Towers Structural Failure Analysis
Posted On: October 14, 2004, 7:55 pm CDT
Posted By: Mr. Marian Augustyniak
Comment:
REVISED WTC TOWERS COLLAPSE
There is a new study of the WTC Towers collapse that throws a shadow on the uncritically accepted version of consumption by fire and heat. The "World Trade Center Towers Collapse Architectural and Structural Consequences" analysis in www.ponderon.com, without denying their contribution, directs the attention to the Towers' structural damage caused by the force of impact and the initial fuel explosion. The Towers were unable to absorb these forces and the collapse was a direct result of their construction. The Towers lacked the cross bracing and the structural connections were made by bolting, which failed immediately upon the impacts. Had it not been so, the raging aviation fuel fires would shortly burn themselves out, causing death of some three hundred people and much damage, but without causing the collapse. The analysis details the events as they occurred, affecting the behavior of the towers structural system, during and after the impacts.
An instant the Boeing 767 airplane rammed it the Tower shuddered and snapped backward like a boxer under a blow. But, unlike a boxer who recovers, the Tower after this deathblow, made only a partial recovery. With its equilibrium and structural integrity gone, was already lifeless. Deprived of the functionality, the carcass disintegrated, crating thousands of victims to the hate, madness, irresponsibility, and greed.
Subject: WTC Towers Structural Failure Analysis
There is a new study of the WTC Towers collapse that throws a shadow on the uncritically accepted version of consumption by fire and heat. The "World Trade Center Towers Collapse Architectural and Structural Consequences" analysis in www.ponderon.com, without denying their contribution, directs the attention to the Towers' structural damage caused by the force of impact and the initial fuel explosion. The Towers were unable to absorb these forces and the collapse was a direct result of their construction. The Towers lacked the cross bracing and the structural connections were made by bolting, which failed immediately upon the impacts. Had it not been so, the raging aviation fuel fires would shortly burn themselves out, causing death of some three hundred people and much damage, but without causing the collapse. The analysis details the events as they occurred, affecting the behavior of the towers structural system, during and after the impacts.
An instant the Boeing 767 airplane rammed it the Tower shuddered and snapped backward like a boxer under a blow. But, unlike a boxer who recovers, the Tower after this deathblow, made only a partial recovery. With its equilibrium and structural integrity gone, was already lifeless. Deprived of the functionality, the carcass disintegrated, crating thousands of victims to the hate, madness, irresponsibility, and greed.