10-02-2012, 09:42 PM
Jim,
My suspicion is that NIST and the 9/11 Commission might have realized that these three structures had some very unusual engineering design approaches/decisions. This would have nothing to do with the initiation cause per se... but ultimately explained the building collapse. In both the case of the twins and Bldg 7 a legal team would want to look at the actual mechanism of collapse if not try to pin down the initiation. As noted the initiation likely had several contribution factors... and one of the was the design itself. It was one factor, but the aggregate which would doom the structures. And one of those factors was the structural design. A very strong design could resist the other contributing factors and in the case of the twins would not have had the floors collapse progressively and completely down to the ground. The Emprire State Building could not collapse down if the top 15 or 30 stories collapsed onto the lower section... regardless of what initiation that upper collapse. A law suit would have brought out the design consideration and decisions and how this led to the collapse. I suspect the same for Bldg 7 and so cover HAD to be provided to the developers, designers and officials who approved the designs... because the mother of all construction professional liability negligence lawsuit would have been filed. And had it been we would have a lot more evidence of what actually happened.
W declared 9/11 an act of war... no need to preserve evidence... and down the memory hole it all went.
My suspicion is that NIST and the 9/11 Commission might have realized that these three structures had some very unusual engineering design approaches/decisions. This would have nothing to do with the initiation cause per se... but ultimately explained the building collapse. In both the case of the twins and Bldg 7 a legal team would want to look at the actual mechanism of collapse if not try to pin down the initiation. As noted the initiation likely had several contribution factors... and one of the was the design itself. It was one factor, but the aggregate which would doom the structures. And one of those factors was the structural design. A very strong design could resist the other contributing factors and in the case of the twins would not have had the floors collapse progressively and completely down to the ground. The Emprire State Building could not collapse down if the top 15 or 30 stories collapsed onto the lower section... regardless of what initiation that upper collapse. A law suit would have brought out the design consideration and decisions and how this led to the collapse. I suspect the same for Bldg 7 and so cover HAD to be provided to the developers, designers and officials who approved the designs... because the mother of all construction professional liability negligence lawsuit would have been filed. And had it been we would have a lot more evidence of what actually happened.
W declared 9/11 an act of war... no need to preserve evidence... and down the memory hole it all went.