- Author
- Bazant, Z. | Zhou, Y.
- Title
- Why Did the World Trade Center Collapse? Simple Analysis.
- Coporate
- Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL
- Journal
- Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Vol. 128, No. 1, 2-6, January 2002
- Keywords
- World Trade Center | building collapse | high rise buildings | disasters | failure | terrorism | 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