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Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Shorter Critique of Bazant, the Master Mechanical Engineer

For his WTC work he:

1) used a completely improbable assumption for floor collisions-- perfectly inelastic

2) used a clearly false assumption in setting up equations for collapse-- crush up, then crush down-- when logic and the physical evidence shows the opposite

3) used an improperly large average particle size to calculate energy required to pulverize concrete-- thus vastly under-estimating the energy required

4) failed to account for and calculate the efficiency of concrete pulverization

5) failed to account for energy required to propel massive steel columns away from the towers

6) initially failed to account for energy needed to expel tons of concrete dust

7) used a flawed and completely unrealistic model of symmetrical column buckling to calculate energy involved in initial floor collapse...


But I'm just a dumb blogger and he's the expert, so let's just trust him-- right?

12 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

i think quotation marks would be appropriate in this case:

bazant, the "master"...

11:34 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

...he's the expert (Bazant)...

Which makes it all the more amusing that a mere blogger has called him to account!

hey Bazant, where is your latest *analytical* submission to the Journal Of Engineering Mechanics?
REJECTED!

move over spongebob, there's a new *engineer* in town! (bazant)

2:47 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"dumb blogger..."

Hey....you said it!

Every one of those things that you say are hits on Bayzant are not backed up by any data on your part. Not a whit of evidence on your part that you are right and Bayzant is wrong. Nothing. Nothing here, nothing worth a warm bucket of spit in your "other" scholarly/published/peer reviewed articles.

Everything hit on your list is *your* interpretation. Nobody else's, just a dumb blogger.

Tell me again why I sho8uld believe *you*, just a dumb blogger who is afraid to publish his works, over a university chair?

8:26 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

hey Spookmeister!

With the absolutely screwed up and w-r-o-n-g polling in New Hampshire, I'm waiting for your apologies regarding the exit polls from the 2004 election!

Polls CAN BE wrong by an significant order of magnitude.

Deal with it.

10:58 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Good one 8:26!
It would be too difficult to read that entire blog dedicated to exposing Bazant's nonsense....much easier to simply pretend that it is not even there.

12:37 PM  
Blogger spooked said...

Oh for pete's sake--

8:26 AM: I have already written several posts on his paper and have linked to it and have even set up a new site for the critiques:
http://www.bloglines.com/blog/spooked911/

10:58 AM: What was wrong in NH was the pre-election polling, not the exit polls. Big difference. There is also the simple conclusion that if we assume they rigged the 2004 election (and other previous elections), they could have rigged NH in Hillary's favor-- assuming she is the favored candidate of TPTB.

12:55 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"I have already written several posts on his paper and have linked to it and have even set up a new site for the critiques:"

But you have conveniently left out any technical-based criticism of his work, preferring rather to highlight merely your opposition to his findings.

Historically, academic dissent to a paper authored by an individual of the stature of Bayzant (regardless your personal animosity towards him) would require a rebuttal that addresses his work in a like-manner, that is with copiously documented and painstakingly- derived analytical analysis, not a childlike approach like your "Ho ho ho his particle sizes are too small!".

This juvenile taunting is fine on a middle school playground, but when you are trying to call a leading academician of the likes of Bayzant, junior high school papers are hardly the stuff that will carry the day. I am not surprised you don't wish to publish or submit your work to any peer-reviewed journals or engineering publications.

4:17 PM  
Blogger spooked said...

4:17 PM-- perhaps it would help if you read the actual critiques and not the "shorter" versions of them I gave here.

And while this post could be construed as mere carping from the peanut gallery, the bigger and far more important question is whether I am right or not.

5:11 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I see that @4:17 still hasn't found Bazant's phony "sledgehammer"!

10:25 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

But you have conveniently left out any technical-based criticism of his work, preferring rather to highlight merely your opposition to his findings.

Historically, academic dissent to a paper authored by an individual of the stature of Bayzant (regardless your personal animosity towards him) would require a rebuttal that addresses his work in a like-manner, that is with copiously documented and painstakingly- derived analytical analysis, not a childlike approach like your "Ho ho ho his particle sizes are too small!".

This juvenile taunting is fine on a middle school playground, but when you are trying to call a leading academician of the likes of Bayzant, junior high school papers are hardly the stuff that will carry the day. I am not surprised you don't wish to publish or submit your work to any peer-reviewed journals or engineering publications.


Couldn't have said it better myself.

Spooked and AP have no experience or training in the sciences at all. they are reduced to flinging whatever they can clutch at in the hopes that something will stick.

2:38 AM  
Blogger spooked said...

Spooked and AP have no experience or training in the sciences at all. they are reduced to flinging whatever they can clutch at in the hopes that something will stick.

A blatant lie and written like the desperate shill you are.

9:14 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey is that the very same sword of "truth" that insisted that the WTC were not made of armor but then failed repeatedly to state what exactly they were made of?
Should we not consider all of sword of "truth's" comments to be as credible as that one was?

1:40 PM  

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