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Author
Usmani, A. S. | Chung, Y. C. | Torero, J. L.
Title
Assessment of the Stability of the WTC Twin-Towers in a Major Fire.
Coporate
Edinburgh Univ., Scotland
Book or Conf
Designing Structures for Fire. Proceedings. Co-Sponsored by: Society of Fire Protection Engieners and Structural Engineering Institute. September 30-October 1, 2003, DEStech Publications, Inc., Baltimore, MD, 13-23 p., 2003
Keywords
World Trade Center | structures | building design | stability | building collapse | scenarios | columns | floors
Identifiers
World Trade Center (110-story-high) Towers, Manhattan, New York, September 11, 2001; computational model; full range of fire scenarios for all analyses carried out; failure envelopes; model with a single column, 2-floor fire scenario