TECHNICAL NOTES
Mar 1, 2002
Addendum to “Why Did the World Trade Center Collapse?—Simple Analysis”
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VIEW THE ORIGINAL ARTICLEAuthors: Zdeněk P. Bažant, F.ASCE, and Yong ZhouAuthor Affiliations
Publication: Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Volume 128, Issue 3
Abstract
The addendum presents the responses to several questions on a preliminary version (which arrived too late for publication as part of the paper). The questions deal with the aircraft impact at a higher floor of the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001 damage to the upper part of the collapsing tower, weakness of connections, plastic cushioning of vertical impact, estimation of the equivalent mass, and the collapse of the adjacent lower building.
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Bažant, Z. P.(2001a). “Why did the World Trade Center collapse?” SIAM News, 34(8), 1, 3.
Bažant, Z. P. (2001b). “Anatomie zániku dvojčat [Anatomy of ruin of twin towers.]” Věda a technika, Hospodářské noviny, 186, September 25, 1, in Czech.
Bažant, Z. P. and Cedolin, L. (1991). Stability of structures: Elastic, inelastic, fracture and damage theories, Oxford Univ., New York.
Bažant, Z. P., and Zhou, Y.(2002). “Why did the World Trade Center collapse?—Simple analysis.” J. Eng. Mech., 128(1), 2–6.
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Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Volume 128 • Issue 3 • March 2002
Pages: 369 - 370
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Copyright © 2002 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Nov 28, 2001
Accepted: Dec 7, 2001
Published online: Mar 1, 2002
Published in print: Mar 2002
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Zdeněk P. Bažant, F.ASCE
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil Engineering and Materials Science, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208.
Yong Zhou
Graduate Research Assistant, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208.
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