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Why did World Trade Center collapse? – Simple analysis

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 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.

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering and Materials Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA e-mail: z-bazant@northwestern.edu, , , , , , US

    Z. P. Baz˘ant & Y. Zhou

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  1. Z. P. Baz˘ant
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Received and accepted for publication 2 October 2001

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Baz˘ant, Z., Zhou, Y. Why did World Trade Center collapse? – Simple analysis. Archive of Applied Mechanics 71, 802–806 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004190100189

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