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Thursday, August 21, 2008

NIST Blames WTC7 Free-Fall Speed Demise on "Thermal Expansion"

Whole bunch o' crap here from NIST:
GAITHERSBURG, Md.— The fall of the 47-story World Trade Center building 7 (WTC 7) in New York City late in the afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001, was primarily due to fires, the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today following an extensive, three-year scientific and technical building and fire safety investigation. This was the first known instance of fire causing the total collapse of a tall building, the agency stated as it released for public comment its WTC investigation report and 13 recommendations for improving building and fire safety.

“Our study found that the fires in WTC 7, which were uncontrolled but otherwise similar to fires experienced in other tall buildings, caused an extraordinary event,” said NIST WTC Lead Investigator Shyam Sunder. “Heating of floor beams and girders caused a critical support column to fail, initiating a fire-induced progressive collapse that brought the building down.”

“Video and photographic evidence combined with detailed computer simulations show that neither explosives nor fuel oil fires played a role in the collapse of WTC 7,” Sunder said. The NIST investigation team also determined that other elements of the building’s construction—namely trusses, girders and cantilever overhangs that were used to transfer loads from the building superstructure to the columns of the electric substation (over which WTC 7 was constructed) and foundation below— did not play a significant role in the collapse.

According to the report, a key factor leading to the eventual collapse of WTC 7 was thermal expansion of long-span floor systems at temperatures “hundreds of degrees below those typically considered in current practice for fire resistance ratings." WTC 7 used a structural system design in widespread use.
Yeah, whatever.

In any case, the obvious controlled demolition of WTC7 is ultimately a distraction from the nuking of the WTC.

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Shyam Sunder, or henceforth, Sham Sunder, was until recently the Acting Deputy Director of the Building and Fire Research Laboratory at NIST.

Now he has moved up several levels to full Director. Back in 2005 he received the “Gold Medal Award for his distinguished leadership of the federal building and fire safety investigation of the World Trade Center disaster from the U.S. Department of Commerce.” [From his own NIST bio.]

Surely he is due for another award now for his laughable “masterpiece” of WTC7 physical impossibility.

But wait, earlier Sham Sunder had acted as none other than a REMASTERMIND of the audio tapes of the police and firemen’s radio communications on 9/11. See Ref. 34: “Port Authority Radio Repeater Audio 9-11-01, (New York: Fire Department, City of New York, 2005), CD 22 and "NIST Response to the World Trade Center Disaster: World Trade Center Investigation Status," S. Shyam Sunder, Acting Deputy Director and Lead Investigator, Building and Fire Research Laboratory, NIST, US Department of Commerce, 10/19/2004, (PowerPoint presentation).”

From this wiki entry on the radio communications that day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11,_2001_radio_communications

So once again, we learn that if you are pure evil and you REMASTERMIND crucial audio tapes, you can go far--IN HELL. (Where it is claimed by some to be lots of…FIRES!!!)

4:17 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You use the term "remastermind" frequently. What does that word mean whenever you use it here?

Thanks.

4:41 PM  
Blogger spooked said...

Sham Sunder indeed. He's got quite the name for this.

5:36 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

agree. but what does "remastermind" mean?

6:44 PM  

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