- 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