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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