Abstract
This paper presents a simplified approximate analysis of the overall collapse of the towers of World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001. The analysis shows that if prolonged heating caused the majority of columns of a single floor to lose their load carrying capacity, the whole tower was doomed. DOI: 10.1061/~ASCE!0733-9399~2002!128:1~2! CE Database keywords: New York; New York City; Disasters; Buildings; High-rise; Collapse; Analysis; Terrorism.
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