Some Misunderstandings Related to WTC Collapse Analysis

[Tony Szamboti]

There were no kingpins in the twin towers. These were highly redundant structures, including the connections, and random heating would not have worked to break things loose. Getting enough momentum going in all three cases required significant assistance in the beginning of the collapses for overloading of floors and a cascade causing columns to be unsupported etc. to then finish the job of destroying the buildings.

The connections are the weakest link in any structure, but the word weakest does not mean weak. It is relative to the other items and if the weakest link can handle several times the load, the structure is considered robust by any measure.

There were also no kingpins in WTC 7, and in that case its top section did act like a pile driver after its momentum was generated by eight stories of its entire core being pulled symmetrically between floors 7 through 14.

Whatever you say...

Please describe what this is:

eight stories of its entire core being pulled symmetrically between floors 7 through 14

Betcha you can't and you can't find a shred of evidence to support this in any of the debris. I know they sold it for scrap.

The evidence is in the video showing the eight stories of symmetric free fall of the entire building, which starts when the west penthouse is just dropping and not even below the roofline. That can only have been caused by eight stories of the core being removed.

Please don't try to say the perimeter columns came down on their own after being left unsupported and that it couldn't have been the entire core as the east penthouse came down seven seconds before. These things could not be true as if the east side core had come down fully to the ground when the east penthouse went down the east side perimeter columns would have also come down. The fact that the east side perimeter did not come down with the east side penthouse shows the penthouse collapse was only into the building at the top. The entire core of WTC 7 was being dropped when the west penthouse went down and it pulled in the perimeter columns across the building over eight stories, resulting in a complete symmetrical free fall for over 100 feet of the entire building.