| Mike Painter 2006-09-11, 9:30 pm |
| Toto the Dog wrote:
> Each tower had 40 huge steel columns running up the centre. If the
> booms you can hear during the collapse were the floors hitting each
> other and not demolition charges why were these steel columns not left
> standing but found at the debris pile in uniform 30 foot lengths? Why
> weren't those columns standing after the floors had suposedly 'slid
> down' around them?
>
> Here's one of the columns:
> http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/...edcolumnfy6.jpg
That's a picture of something but please give us the pictures and
information on
a "debris pile in uniform 30 foot lengths"
As for the "huge steel columns"
"The unique structure of the WTC towers exaggerated the problems caused by
the weakened steel. The towers had a lightweight "perimeter tube" design
consisting of 244 exterior columns of 36 cm square steel box section on 100
cm centers, with 95% of the structure's interior consisting of nothing but
air Within this perimeter tube design there was a 27m by 40m core,
designed to provide additional support to the tower."
I don't consider 36 cm (less than 15 inches) huge in that context.
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