WTC Towers: MIT Engineers Offer Analysis Of Collapse

A month after the terrorist attacks, MIT structural engineers provide an in-depth analysis of the collapse of the World Trade Center towers. They point out the vulnerabilities of tall buildings and present recommendations for strengthening skyscrapers.

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October 11, 2001, 7:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"One month after the attack on the World Trade Center, M.I.T. structural engineers offer their take on how and why the towers came down...A panel of Boston area-based civil and structural engineers convened to discuss the fate of the superskyscrapers, struck by hijacked passenger planes, in front of an overflow audience on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Their starkly sobering analyses highlighted the vulnerabilities of ultra-tall buildings to fire and pointed out steps that could be taken to lessen them. "

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

Read the full story: How The Towers Fell

Tuesday, October 9, 2001 in Scientific American

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