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04/07/17

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Originally posted by Crom Valen ↑

These people are not interested in science or facts. Is it any wonder that some of the biggest paranoid conspiracy theorists on HC are also 9/11 conspiracy theorists as well. Surely if you think every situation presenting with a conventional explanation is actually a conspiracy, the problem is with your mental health.

It is known that structural steel begins to soften around 425°C and loses about half of its strength at 650°C.⁴ This is why steel is stress relieved in this temperature range. But even a 50% loss of strength is still insufficient, by itself, to explain the WTC collapse. It was noted above that the wind load controlled the design allowables. The WTC, on this low-wind day, was likely not stressed more than a third of the design allowable, which is roughly one-fifth of the yield strength of the steel. Even with its strength halved, the steel could still support two to three times the stresses imposed by a 650°C fire.

The additional problem was distortion of the steel in the fire. The temperature of the fire was not uniform everywhere, and the temperature on the outside of the box columns was clearly lower than on the side facing the fire. The temperature along the 18 m long joists was certainly not uniform. Given the thermal expansion of steel, a 150°C temperature difference from one location to another will produce yield-level residual stresses. This produced distortions in the slender structural steel, which resulted in buckling failures. Thus, the failure of the steel was due to two factors: loss of strength due to the temperature of the fire, and loss of structural integrity due to distortion of the steel from the non-uniform temperatures in the fire.

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You embarrass yourself with this nonsense.
Do you even know how thick these steel columns were?
Tell me.

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