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The Late Jolt -- Re-Examining the World Trade Center Catastrophe
Ansgar Schneider
A model of a gravity-driven collapse of a tall building has been proposed by Bažant et al. We apply this model to the collapse of the North Tower of the World Trade Center to deter…
physics.class-ph2017★ 2 cited
The Crush-Down Equation for Non-Constant Velocity Profiles
Ansgar Schneider
Bažant et al. have proposed a model for a gravity-driven collapse of a tall building that collapses after column failure in a single storey. Therein the collapsing building is desc…
physics.class-ph2017
Energy Estimates of Progressive Floor Collapses and the World Trade Center Catastrophe
Ansgar Schneider
The Simple Collapse Model of Bažant and Zhou is evaluated for a progressive floor collapse of a tall building. A sequence of energy estimates indexed by the collapsing floors is de…