On the physics of high-rise building collapses

By Steve Jones, Robert Korol, Anthony Szamboti and Ted Walter – Europhysics News In August 2002, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) launched what would become a six-year investigation of the three building failures that occurred on September 11, 2001 (9/11): the well-known collapses of the World Trade Center (WTC) Twin Towers […]

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