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16. WTC 7 Damage pic

Tue Mar 3, 2015, 04:54 PM

Mar 2015

NIST WTC7 FAQ

8. Why did WTC 7 collapse, while no other known building in history has collapsed due to fires alone?

The collapse of WTC 7 is the first known instance of a tall building brought down primarily by uncontrolled fires.

21. Did debris from the collapse of WTC 1 cause damage to WTC 7's structure in a way that contributed to the building's collapse?

The debris from WTC 1 caused structural damage to the southwest region of WTC 7—severing seven exterior columns—but this structural damage did not initiate the collapse. The fires initiated by the debris, rather than the structural damage that resulted from the impacts, initiated the building's collapse after the fires grew and spread to the northeast region after several hours.

The debris impact caused no damage to the spray-applied fire-resistive material that was applied to the steel columns, girders, and beams except in the immediate vicinity of the severed columns. The debris impact damage did play a secondary role in the last stages of the collapse sequence, where the exterior façade buckled at the lower floors where the impact damage was located. A separate analysis showed that even without the structural damage due to debris impact, WTC 7 would have collapsed in fires similar to those that occurred on Sept. 11, 2001. None of the large pieces of debris from WTC 2 hit WTC 7 because of the large distance between the two buildings.

22. Would WTC 7 have collapsed even if there had been no structural damage induced by the collapse of WTC 1?

Yes. Even without the structural damage, WTC 7 would have collapsed from the fires that the debris initiated. The growth and spread of the lower-floor fires due to the loss of water supply to the sprinklers from the city mains was enough to initiate the collapse of the entire building due to buckling of a critical column in the northeast region of the building.

http://www.nist.gov/el/disasterstudies/wtc/faqs_wtc7.cfm

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PART 2: Fictitious Gouge Launches Design Flaw Myth and Collapse Initiation Fantasy [View all] wildbilln864 Feb 2015 OP

So eyewitness accounts by the FDNY are fictitious? hack89 Feb 2015 #1

Accounts unsworn and untested in a court n/t frankfacts Feb 2015 #2

That doesn't make them fictitious. hack89 Feb 2015 #3

Unsworn and untested means unproven, or more simply put; nothing but hot air n/t frankfacts Feb 2015 #4

So present us your evidence so we can compare accounts hack89 Feb 2015 #5

Where's your evidence? frankfacts Mar 2015 #6

Besides the FDNY accounts that have been posted here regularly for the past 10 years? Nt hack89 Mar 2015 #7

Not sure you know what evidence is. See my comments above for a refresher n/t frankfacts Mar 2015 #9

It is more than you have, isn't it? hack89 Mar 2015 #10

Now you're talking about something other than evidence n/t frankfacts Mar 2015 #11

So we both have no evidence? hack89 Mar 2015 #12

The "something" in my post title referred to the "it" in your post title frankfacts Mar 2015 #13

I thought you believed that there was no damage to WTC 7 hack89 Mar 2015 #14

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WTC 7 Damage pic nationalize the fed Mar 2015 #16

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