Could Civil/Structural Engineers Have Prevented The 9/11 Attack?
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Oct 17, 2024
Oct 17, 2024
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Structural and Civl engineers must be knowing from a scientific perspective what happened to the buildings during the terrorist attacks in order to prevent future failures.
On the day of the attack, the plane tore through several stories of the World Trade Center north tower within a half-second and found that the weight of the fuel acted like a flash flood of flaming liquid, knocking out essential structural columns within the building and removing fireproofing insulation from other support structures.
There could have been some practices that if followed during construction that prevent the buildings from falling on such massive attacks. I might be entirely wrong in the perception of all of this, so I am looking for some opinions and views from Civil and Structural Engineers.
Here's an animated visualization created by researchers at Purdue University -
On the day of the attack, the plane tore through several stories of the World Trade Center north tower within a half-second and found that the weight of the fuel acted like a flash flood of flaming liquid, knocking out essential structural columns within the building and removing fireproofing insulation from other support structures.
There could have been some practices that if followed during construction that prevent the buildings from falling on such massive attacks. I might be entirely wrong in the perception of all of this, so I am looking for some opinions and views from Civil and Structural Engineers.
Here's an animated visualization created by researchers at Purdue University -
