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Author
Quintiere, J. G.
Title
Predicted Timeline of Failure for the WTC Towers.
Coporate
Maryland Univ., College Park
Report
Volume 2,
Book or Conf
Interflam 2004. (Interflam '04). International Interflam Conference, 10th Proceedings. Volume 2. July 5-7, 2004. Organised by Interscience Communications Ltd. in association with National Institute of Standards and Technology, Building Research Establishment; National Fire Protection Association; Society of Fire Protection Engineers; and Swedish National Testing and Research Institute, Interscience Communications Ltd., London, England, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1009-1022 p., 2004
Keywords
fire science | fire safety | Wrold Trade Center | failure | building collapse | high rise buildings | aircraft fuels | building materials | enclosures | structural elmenets | insulation | equations | heating
Identifiers
World Trade Center (110-story-high) Towers, Manhattan, New York, September 11, 2001; result of the fire heating the floor truss system; heating and damage to the core columns; collapse hypotheses; building contents as fuel; physics of enclosure fires; estimating the WTC fire conditions; heating times for structural elements