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Friday, November 20, 2009

WTC Sim Backs NIST Report

Five years after the real thing, researchers at Purdue University in Indiana have simulated what likely happened inside the North Tower of the World Trade Center when American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the structure on Sept. 11, 2001. The findings could help silence alternative collapse theory arguments. The simulation provides a better understanding of which elements in the building's structural core were affected, how they responded initially to the collision shock, and how the tower later collapsed from the ensuing fire fed by thousands of gallons of jet fuel. “The simulation enabled us to ‘look’ inside the ...

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