- Author
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Bazant, Z.
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Zhou, Y.
- Title
- Why Did the World Trade Center Collapse? Simple Analysis.
- Coporate
- Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL
- Journal
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Journal of Engineering Mechanics,
Vol. 128,
No. 1,
2-6,
January 2002
- Keywords
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World Trade Center
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building collapse
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high rise buildings
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disasters
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failure
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terrorism
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terrorists
- Identifiers
- elastic dynamic analysis; inelastic energy dissipation; problems of disaster mitigation; elastic dynamic response to aircraft impact; why didn't the upper part pivot about its base?; plastic load-shortening diagram of columns