What did and did not cause collapse of World Trade Center twin towers in New York?

Journal of Engineering Mechanics

Volumn 134, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 892-906

  Bažant, Zdeněk P ^a   Le, Jia Liang ^a   Greening, Frank R ^b   Benson, David B ^c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northwestern Univ ^*  (Canada)

^c Washington State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Buildings; Collapse; High rise; New York; New York City; Structural dynamics; Terrorism; Towers

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; COMMERCE; COMMINUTION; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); EQUATIONS OF MOTION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRINDING (COMMINUTION); INTERNATIONAL TRADE; OFFICE BUILDINGS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPEED; TOWERS;

COLLAPSE; CONTROLLED DEMOLITION; DUST CLOUDS; DUST PARTICLES; FREE-FALL; GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSES; GRAVITATIONAL ENERGY; HIGH-RISE; LOGICAL INTERPRETATION; MOTION HISTORY; NEW YORK; NEW YORK CITY; OVERALL COLLAPSE; PROGRESSIVE COLLAPSE; SIZE RANGES; SMALL HOLES; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; TERRORISM; TWIN TOWERS; WORLD TRADE CENTER;

DUST;

COLLAPSE; COMMINUTION; CRUSHING; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; GRAVITY; WORLD TRADE CENTER;

NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 52649159237     PISSN: 07339399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9399(2008)134:10(892)     Document Type: Article

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