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Originally posted by Deke4life
I would strongly envite anyone who hasn't done so already, to read Dr. Jones' paper in its entirety. Its only about 29 pages, and is easily underastandable, even by those who are not Senior Physics Professors.
I would also suggest that the politics of the matter should be left alone until the scientific data is sufficiently considered. In other words, follow the science regardless of what any political implication may exist.
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Well it looks like I stand corrected in the matter of the history of steel buildings collapsing under fire... after some reading I might add - the steel structure in question here deals with the "new" generation of steel consturction (post late 60s). Sorry but I guess I didn't do enough reading into the background of the construction techniques and materials used.....
However I did get a chance to read through the paper, and I did note that the author seems to gloss-over or ignore the various conventional fuel sources in the building - while it does briefly touch on the presence of some diesel tanks, the paper doesn't not explore the possibility that the diesel fuels and such may have been a primary contributing factor in the collapse of the building; particularlly given the fact that there where day storage diesel tanks located on the 2nd, 5th, 7th, and 9th floors in addition to the some 40000 gallons located at ground level and connected by pipes to the day tanks.
Yet another paper dealing with the collapse, specifically pointing out the problem of weaken steel support due to intense sustained heat:
http://irc.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/fulltext/n.../nrcc46279.pdf