How the airplane wing cut through the exterior columns of the World Trade Center

International Journal of Impact Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 601-625

  Wierzbicki, T ^a   Teng, X ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Aircraft impact; Exterior column; Fracture; World trade center

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL); DEFORMATION; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); PLASTIC DEFORMATION; STEEL STRUCTURES; WINGS;

TENSILE FRACTURE;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 0037411559     PISSN: 0734743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0734-743X(02)00106-9     Document Type: Article

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