Structural responses of World Trade Center under aircraft attacks

Journal of Structural Engineering

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 6-15

  Omika, Yukihiro ^a   Fukuzawa, Eiji ^a   Koshika, Norihide ^a   Morikawa, Hiroshi ^a   Fukuda, Ryusuke ^a  

^a KAJIMA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aircraft; Buildings; Collapse; Damage; High rise; Impact forces; New York; New York City; Structural response; Terrorism

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; BEAMS AND GIRDERS; BUILDINGS; COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

COLLAPSE; HIGH-RISE; IMPACT FORCES; NEW WORK CITY; STRUCTURAL DAMAGES; STRUCTURAL RESPONSES; TERRORISM;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 12344251928     PISSN: 07339445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9445(2005)131:1(6)     Document Type: Article

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