I can speak for myself, and I would appreciate it if you did not try to make my points for me Badecker. I Choose specific points and paths of discussion carefully in order to prevent diversion of the debate by this obvious shill, what you are doing is just giving him more endless unprovable topics to argue about in order to pretend his arguments have merit.
No we don't need to look at sheer and tensile strengths of materials, because under the conditions and speed of the fall, it would appear that there is ZERO sheer strength and ZERO strength of the materials, because the building falls through them WITHOUT RESISTANCE. The ONLY WAY that happens is if they are BLOWN out of the way with explosives before the falling sections make contact. There is nothing more to debate about it. This is check and mate. Your desire to discuss tertiary engineering issues of which none of us including you are experts is simply an act of distraction from this very salient and damning point to your bullshit narrative.
Note how Spendulus like to have it two ways. First, the potential energy due gravity was responsible for the launching upwards and outwards of multi-ton steel members, the pulverization of steel reinforced concrete, etc, etc. Second, he does not believe that the transfer of energy would arrest the acceleration of the collapse. But, ya know...eight grade physics...
That's not quite accurate. I noted four ways PE could transfer, and I noted by the final of the collapse, PE would be zero, all of it having been transferred. I don't think either Tecshare or myself has ever mentioned "upwards and outwards," only "outwards."
Free-fall release of potential energy results in a well know acceleration. Any tapping of this energy (e.g., ripping apart steel structual members or pulverizing steel reinforced concrete mid-air) would necessarily arrest this free-fall acceleration to some degree.
My intuitive sense is that given the structural design of this particular building the collapse would be fully arrested with a fair part of the building standing, some of which would have shed the floor pans and outer framework which would be more likely to sluff off with at most a tiny few forcefull ejections of smallish bare members.)
The above if several stories above and below the impact site simply vanished. In an increasingly plastic collapse such as that which the 'fires did it' people try to argue, the top would simply fall off due to the asymmetries. Probably again partially stripping some of the floor pans on one side. We would also see deflection of the tower building due to the polar moment of the clearly tipping upper section. This would either be to great for the structure to sustain in which case it would topple laterally, or it would not and we would see the lower level standing.
Somewhere along the line I ran across some pretty good footage detailing the various 'upward' trajectories. Cannot see it now, but in less focused footage plenty of interesting trajectories, accelerations, and mid-air pulverizations are noticed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhyu-fZ2nRAOf course there are a lot of interesting stills as well:
Anyway, for the sake of argument, let's say that there were zero incidents of debris moving past normal to the fall vector (e.g., upward of horizontal). The energy input needed as impulse to create the lateral velocity noted are more interesting and significant than that needed to create an upward vector from a normal one. Again, all of these energy sinks and others rob from that available to accelerate the structure on it's collapse path.
As for "arresting the acceleration of the collapse," I'm only trying to get it clear what the claim is as to the extent of arresting, before applying some formulas to it.
This has been quantified from a very early time in the independent analysis. In looking around, I see a presentation which I'd not yet run across which is interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiHeCjZlkr8This kind of illustrates the mental simulation of the behavior I intuited for such a collapse. I think it is fair to say that my intuition on such things us above par having spent time taking down buildings as an occupation (albeit exclusively large wooden ones for salvage purposes) and having training level exposure to demolishing various kinds of structures using explosives.
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Just for fun, here's the kinds of techniques one can use to gauge quantitatively some energetic activities on sort of an order-of-magnitude scale:
1) How much energy is available in a reinforced concrete floor panel due to PE-gravity? A) How much diesel does a crane use to lift it to it's place.
2) How much energy is necessary to pulverize said concrete floor panel? A) How much diesel does a jack-hammer use in doing the job?
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On intuitive thoughts, let's consider the aluminum aircraft parts parsing the steel box columns. What happens when we intersect 1/13" thick aluminum skin with the 1.5" thick steel box structures at:
1) 1 m/s
2) speed of sound
3) in a
ccomputer animation probably done by some failing grad student who wanted a degree and a goobmint job.