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Max Photon takes a sideswipe at WildCat (with that feather play-thingy).
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Its a shame when real science gets in the way of resent and bitterness induced fantasy, isn't it people?
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Max Photon says WTC2's phreato-thermatic explosion was used to knock off SFRM
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Apollo20 and others, Just a reminder... As you discuss the SFRM, the floor trusses, and the visco-elastic dampers, remember that I put forth the notion that demolition planners engineered a phreato-thermatic explosion when Flight 175 struck WTC2. First, let me clarify a point. I had first said all of the aluminum from 175 was consumed in the phreato-thermatic explosion. Allow me to loosen that constraint a bit, so that a significant portion of the aluminum - that portion that was sufficiently fine to burn - was involved in the phreato-thermatic explosion. Anyway, that said, the phreato-thermatic explosion was a multi-valued function - it served multiple purposes. One key function of the phreato-thermatic explosion - a function highly relevant to this discussion - was to provide energy to dislodge SFRM from the floor assemblies, including the dampers. So as you ponder energy deficits or surpluses, keep that extra energy source in mind. Cheers! Max P.S. TAM, too bad you don't have any Kool Max Vax. --- |
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I am glad to see that someone understands my use of the term "sideswipe"... How else would you excite torsional vibrations in WTC 2? Oh and TAM, did you know: A closed mind put's someone (metaphorically at least) in THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND.... And, by the way, this is a GREAT short story by H. G. Wells that is very apropos vis-avis the JREF NISTIANS who self-identify every time they post here!
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Pardon me Good Sir, but do you have a light?
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Apollo20, This is a great thread, and you are bringing all kinds of goodies to light. ChillZero - actually a very warm person - is here help. She is saying this thread must have a high signal-to-noise ratio, or else. In other words, she has quieted down the room, and warned EVERYONE that disruptions will not be tolerated. This means, good doctor, that the microphone is on, and yours. Why waste time with silly (but fun) child-like resistance? Perhaps it is time, Apollo20, to stop holding back, and simply incinerate them. (I brought dark goggles.) Max Always-Prepared-for-Fireworks Photon --- |
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If I had any "Kool-Max-Vax" I would not use it. You are harmless, and while an little insulting at times, for the most part you are good natured. Apollo20: I do not consider myself a NISTIAN, nor close-minded. I do consider baseless and factless accusation to be rubbish, and those who encourage it to be promoting lies and slander. I also consider the NIST report, from what I have read (NISTNCSTAR 1, and ALL of the exec summaries) to be the best available, AND the most thorough, by a LONG SHOT. I also find those who will claim respect and appreciation for the report (and those who sweated for it) on one hand, while berating it, belittling it, and mocking it on the other to be quite...two faced. TAM ![]() |
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Some of those don't make any sense. Maybe one or two people who claimed to see molten metal but the problem being we are quite susceptible to pulling stuff out of think air in extremely life threating situations. Number ten isn't even a point because a good scientist would be able to discount the use of explosives without testing for explosives.
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Max Photon's recommendations on how to read NCSTAR 1-5A/9/C quickly and productively
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Serious readers of this thread... allow me to make a practical recommendation: A solid understanding of "the story" told in the NCSTAR 1-5A/9/C WTC2 time-line is essential to fully appreciating - and meaningfully participating in - this thread. Here is a good way to read, or re-read, the report: Download the report to your hard drive. http://wtc.nist.gov/NISTNCSTAR1-5A_chap_9-AppxC.pdf Print out the WTC2 time-line pages (there are only about 100 if I remember correctly). I recommend printing and stapling together 25 pages at a time, just to make handling easier. The report discuss about 85 photos of WTC2, taken between impact and collapse initiation. To "read the report", read the paper copy, while having the photo being discussed up on your screen. Since the report basically is a sequence of photos, plus text describing each photo, it is very helpful, as you read, to draw a line horizontally across the paper copy to separate each photo/text segment. Also consider writing in the left margin of each segment - in large letters - Fig XX, for fast reference. The report tells a story. Follow the story. (It's actually incredibly exciting. And bizarre - very bizarre.) I think you'll find these recommendations will make your experience fast, fun, thrilling, and productive. Cheers! Max P.S. Thanks for the kind words TAM --- |
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Max Photon says: Go ahead. Delude yourself. Read NCSTAR 1-5A/9/C.
Wrong. NCSTAR 1-5A/9/C is simply a visual account of phenomena observed on WTC2's facade. If you can bird(brain) watch, you can read NCSTAR 1-5A/9/C Why, some astute spotters claim to have seen even the Gravy-Billed Sucker Plucker hunting and pecking at it.
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Max Photon cranks up, "Break on through to the other side. Break on through..."
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Apollo20 my dear chap, Phase transformation completed. Now, would you be gracious enough to do a quick summary of this thread thus far, and some hints as to where you'd like to go? This reader is very interested. With maximum respect, Max --- |
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Apollo or Max;
I really would like to know how fire proofing of the dampers would come in to play. All the load bearing members being protected would seem to be the critical parts. Surely your not saying that the dampers could have arrested the collapse. |
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Inretrospect the whole building should have been covered in fireproofing, top to bottom. It wasn't, therefore this was a design flaw? I'm not following the logic progression here on the dampeners. You can't just spray fireproofing willy nilly on stuff, especially equipement designed to work in a dynamic state. Seems to me like covering a safety device, thereby restricting its movement would impair it. Plus who knows what kind of chemical interaction would happen? If the foam retained moisture, would the resulting corrosion and pitting on the actuator rod lead to failure?
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Max Photon tells the story of WTC2
What-o DGM? Here is what I see: WTC2 Floor 81 had a UPS room. The "UPS batteries" had iron instead of lead, and salt-water instead of acid. The "UPS batteries" were in fact rust generators. When Flight 175 hit the tower, the front landing gear penetrated the rust generators, throwing up a screen of iron oxide and water into the oncoming shattered aluminum. (The absorption of the jet's energy by the rust generators might account for the "catcher's mitt" effect Apollo20 commented on earlier.) Naturally-occurring, small thermite sparks ignited a thermite reaction in the presence of water, creating a phreato-thermatic explosion (which in turn helped to drive a fuel-air explosion.) This engineered phreato-thermatic explosion provided added energy to knock off SFRM from many different types of steel members and components. Incidentally, the phreato-thermatic explosion also helped to create a spectacular visual input signal, that would be fed into the media, to excite resonance in such harmonics as blind hatred, racism, irrational jingoism, flag-wrapping, belligerence, and so forth. These necessary illusions were required to manufacture consent to illegally invade other sovereign nations, and install a police state here in the SubprimeHomeLand. The phreato-thermatic explosion also created some pools of molten iron on the impact floors, which pooled at low spots, heated the trusses through the concrete, which caused the floors to sag even more, encouraging more pooling, thereby creating a dynamic floor-loading mechanism. The rust generators created a "debris shadow" - the Cold Spot. It was planned that debris on either side of the Cold Spot would collect at under column splices - which were engineered to become hot spots. Thermite had been planted at perimeter connections: column splices, spandrel splices, floor truss seats, and gusset seats. The thermite was simply poured into box columns and spandrel-splice gaps. For the floor truss seats and gusset seats, the thermite was wrapped in paper and black plastic. The thermite was linked and ignited by thermite-dusted shock-tube, and the shock-tube was remotely ignited by laser from WTC7. Note that the thermite-dusted shock-tube was able to light the planted thermite directly, and that the planted thermite was able to ignite out-lines of (other) shock-tube. In other words, the planted thermite could serve as a one-to-many relay. The thermite was designed not to cut, melt, or slice the steel, but to heat-weaken it, by heating the steel to about 600C (though some components were heated to 1100C). If steel was heated well before collapse initiation, it cooled, and became more brittle. If the steel was still hot at collapse initiation, the steel would have been ductile. By controlling the variables of time and temperature, a natural-looking spectrum of failure modes was engineered. Depending on where the thermite was planted - that is, depending on the splice or connection - different phenomena were observed on the exterior as the thermite burned. Thermite at floor truss seats produced flames and smoke at the base of windows. Thermite at gusset seats produced flames, and bright flashes at the "tops of windows". (NIST should have said at the "bottom of spandrels.") Thermite at gusset seats caused the visco-elastic dampers to burn, which created black smoke to mask the white aluminum-oxide ash. Thermite in most box columns was used in small quantities. But it was enough to blow the bolt-access-hole covers off, creating NIST's unexplained "pressure pulses" Thermite was packed into WTC2/81/301, and was the source of the 10-minute metal fire about which NIST dribbled in its bib. Burning thermite spewed out of this column (and others) onto debris piles, creating NIST's "fires burning on piles of debris" or similar. By controlling where and when columns spewed out burning thermite onto piles of debris, demolition planners were able to create the illusion of intense fires migrating across the faces, hots spots and cold spots (which created differential heating, and buckling) and other phenomena. The iron from column 301 accounts for much of the metal flows. Thermite in spandrel splice gaps accounts from the white glows on top of spandrels, and at least one of the WTC2 metal flows. The ignition of all of the above in timed sequences accounts for the "steam pipe organ" effects, the smoke puffs, the pressure pulses, the metal fire, the metal flows, the falling debris, the intense smoke release, the fires that violate normal fire behavior, the intense white glows, the white "smoke", the hanging objects changing location, and on and on. The way to think of the dampers is that they were one of several exploitable susceptibilities: - Flammable visco-elastic dampers - A325 column splice bolts - Thin spandrel splice plates - Top chords at truss seats Never ever forget - the pre-engineered narrative called for: Loss of SFRM allowed trusses to be heated from below, which caused them to sag, which pulled perimeter columns inward, which caused the columns to bow, which caused them to fail, which initiated the collapse of WTC2. NIST is leaving out that thermite was used to heat-weaken steel connections. So the weakening of the visco-elastic dampers was just one step in causing the floors to sag in a manner consistent with the narrative. Plausible deniability required it. Remember, it is not the collapse, but collapse initiation that is of interest. The visco-elastic dampers had a role in the engineering of the collapse initiation. Max --- |
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Max: Thanks, it's so obvious now.
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Max MIHOP surely means AP-spiked SFRM as well........... |
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Ok Max.
Apollo20; Do you care to field my question? |
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Max Photon explains why he chose "phreato-thermatic explosion"
Very well. Here is an excerpt from a post of mine, the link to which can be found here: http://www.internationalskeptics.com...27#post2757227 * * * "...the improvised thermite, which in the presence of water, created a spectacular phreato-thermatic explosion! Phreato means ground water, or underground water. Some object to my phrase, saying that is should be called a phreato-magmatic explosion, in which ground water meets magma (or something molten), creating a steam - or littoral - explosion. I believe phreato-thermatic is more appropriate. Underground can also mean clandestine. Phreato = clandestinely-placed water. Also, the reaction I propose creates more than just a steam explosion. A thermite reaction is twice as hot as orange flowing magma. A DU-penetrator is twice as hot still. [Note: I no longer need the DU penetrator.] At these high temperature, water is energetically driven past the steam phase, and is broken into its constituent hydrogen and oxygen. This creates a colorless hydrogen explosion (as seen in the thermite/ice explosion videos). So a phreato-thermatic explosion has more bang than a phreato-magmatic (steam) explosion. Last, I use thermatic instead of thermitic because the reaction I propose includes sulfur from the building material, in particular, from the gypsum. Phreato-thermatic explosion." * * * I hope that clarifies my choice of words. Max --- |
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Alright! Who spiked MAX-MIHOP with AP? Whoever did it...to the moon!
Apollo20, I am not sure I follow you. MAX-MIHOP is Maxwell C. Photon's particular model. It so happens that MAX-MIHOP is similar in many respects - minus the catalyst - to APOLLO20-MIHOP, an elegant model using ammonium-perchlorate-spiked SFRM. Are you seeing more overlap than I do? Is your model starting to incorporate some of MAX-MIHOP's cunning innovations, hmmmm? If so, I'd love to hear about it. (I'd also like to have little hidden web-cams to see others' reactions.) There is a beautiful saying: The information is in the errors. I think it would be fun to try and articulate MAX-MIHOP and APOLLO20-MIHOP as succinctly as possible, and subject them to some of the anomalies described so beautifully by NIST in NCSTAR 1-5A/9/C. May the best fit win. I say it all the time: I can switch models in a flash; I am beholden to nothing. If AP explains the 10-minute metal fire, the pressure pulses, the 7 intense smoke releases, etc., then MAX-MIHOP will plunder your model for the good parts. (It's like a PacMan game out there.) If there is something better, I want to know about it. If my models are winning, I want to know about that too. Cheers! Max --- |
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I still don't understand why they didn't just use the laser to cut the columns. Think of all the tax money that could have been saved; money that could have been used for further tax cuts for the rich.
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In NCSTAR1-5D, NIST suggests that 66% of the airplanes KE was transferred into the building's KE (movement of the building). This would mean that only 34% of the KE is left to actually damage the building and SFRM, unless of course the movement of the building caused damage.
I find nowhere else in NIST, including the 1-2 Airplane Impact Analysis series, that this is taken into account. In fact, they compare the NIST results to Wierzbicki's study which applied the entire energy to destroying the airplane and damaging the building and had fairly similar results. |
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NIST 1-5D states:
"To assess the response of the tower at the end of the impact, it was necessary to consider the kinetic energy transferred from the airplane to the tower. .... It was assumed that two-thirds of the energy was transferred from the airplane to the structure." This means that the aircraft itself absorbed one third of the impact energy, basically by being shredded... |
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Thank you fot the quote.
So, Gregory Urich... How does one get from "the kinetic energy transferred from the airplane to the tower. .... It was assumed that two-thirds of the energy was transferred from the airplane to the structure" to "NIST suggests that 66% of the airplanes KE was transferred into the building's KE (movement of the building). " The energy ransfer was energy transfer. It takes a different comprehension to read "..energy was transferred from the airplane to the structure" as "KE energy was transferred from the airplane to KE of the structure" |
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In NCSTAR1-5D (p.43-44), NIST very clearly states that 66% of the energy goes into the KE (= 1/2 x mv^2) of the building. I.e. the building (or rather some portion of it) and the airplane are moving together at 42.3 ft/s at the end of impact. What happens to this energy after that point is not discussed.
This part of the NIST reports seems to be one of the weakest. On p. 45 they calculate the accelleration for the building based on a velocity of 42.3 ft/s after 0.63 and get 0.25g (2.46 m/s^2). The minimum accelleration to attain 42.3 ft/s in 0.63 seconds is around 67 ft/s^2 or more than 2g. If the accelleration was constant (it was higher earlier in the impact) the building would be displaced around 13 ft which should have been visible on the videos. T. Wierzbicki et al. estimated that the energy for destroying the aircraft was 586 MJ. The total KE for the planes was 2540 MJ and 3658 MJ for WTC1 and WTC2 respectively. This gives 16-23% of KE for destroying the planes. So only 11-18% would be left for flying debris. To summarize, I think NIST's big mistake was guessing that 66% of the planes KE was tranferred to the tower in the form of KE. |
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Gee, Max, imagine if the real scientists knew the stuff you make up. NIST, for example, could have explained why one Tower remained standing longer than the other by showing that the angles at which the planes hit made a difference. What? NIST did exactly that? Never mind. |
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This is not quite accurate, the building will not be displaced 13 ft, nor anywhere near it. In this study:
Structural Responses of World Trade Center under Aircraft Attacks. Omika, Yukihiro.; Fukuzawa, Eiji.; Koshika, Norihide. Journal of Structural Engineering v. 131 no1 (January 2005) p. 6-15 The accelerations and displacements are calculated for the building, and they find that WTC 1 and 2 experienced maximum accelerations of 2g and 3g respectively, which corresponded to displacements of approx 30cm(.98ft) on the impact floor and 50cm(1.64ft) at the top floor. |
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It seems fairly clear to me from reading NCSTAR 1-5D that the group working in ceiling tile damage needed a value for the transfer of kinetic energy in advance of the group working on modelling the aircraft impact, so they took 66% as a best guess at that stage. That value is only used in assessing ceiling tile damage. If I had been doing the analysis I would have tried to parameterise the result and normalise it to whatever more correct value arose from the impact modelling, but that seems not to have been done. I didn't go into the report in enough detail to see how sensitive the results were to the KE transfer.
One question I would ask is what vibrational modes of the structure were excited by the impulse delivered by the airplane impact. Some of the higher order modes may have coupled into the floor trusses enough to cause significant SFRM loss, especially coupled with debris damage; I wouldn't know whether this is feasible because it isn't my specialism. Dave |
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