bluedragon
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First off, having an understanding of combustion, is elementary in understanding how the burning fuel heated the structural steel and caused the building to collapse. My experience included steel heat treatment furnaces and the like. I do know that steel will dissolve in materials like zinc when the interface temperature reaches 420°C. That is also true for Aluminium, the steel will dissolve into the Al liquid when the liquid temperature of the Al goes above 452 °C. The liquid that you reported pouring out of one of the towers, was more likely a Al-Fe phase liquid.
Secondly, did 95% of the fuel ignite when the planes crashed into the buildings? Probably not. Most combustion that occurs is gaseous and not liquid or solid combustion, although both liquid and solid combustion do occur. Steel rusting is a form of combustion. Turn the steel into very fine powder, it will spontaneously begin to burn as it heats up. That is one of the problems that occur when you remove a gas filter from a high-pressure gas transmission pipeline if you do not place the removed filter, filled with iron powder, into a water bath to stop the air interacting with the iron powder.
Thirdly, fatigue also played a part in the collapse of the building. The wind shear of the building causes the building to sway, thereby, introducing a cyclic stress on the beams, columns and connection bolts. As these items heated up over a period of time after the crashes of the plane into the buildings, the allowable maximum stresses where there is a superimposed cyclic stress on top of the design stresses decreases as the UTS falls off rapidly after the steel members heat up.
Perhaps, you should listen to people with better expertise to explain what went down during the 9/11 event. It was a demonic spiritual attack, that was seen all around the world in real time, which is a part of the Rev. 16:12-16 prophecy. Or perhaps you have not put all of the facts together to come to this understanding.
Sadly, many Christians have not perceived this fact as well.
Shalom
I think I'd look at this report. Interesting concept from Architects and Engineers that didn't believe the building would collapse.
- The report actually focuses on the welded and bolted connections between structural members. They are not specifically tested for fire resistance.
One building in the World Trade Center complex suffered a partial collapse because the connectors failed due to the extreme heat.
The leader of the team that wrote the report for FEMA and the engineering society, Dr. Gene Corley, thinks the connector issue is important.
- W. GENE CORLEY, Structural Engineer:
The fire test requires you to test just the span of the beam, not the locations where it's connected into the rest of the building.
- I've worked steel for years ....Never thought of tests on the connectors.
- Having pushed for wind pressure tests. This makes sense ...No tests done on the connectors at all. If those connectors let go, all bets are off.