Math Problem: World Trade Center

[Cutlass]

Stop Stop Stop lol

I Said The Reason The Wtc Fell Was Because Of Concrete Now Explain Why There Is Melted Steel In The Basement

obviously i am saying i dont think the steel melted but the melted steel didnt come from nowhere

You know how a blast furnace works? You take a confined space which holds the heat in, set a lot of condensed fuel on fire and blow air though it.

The jet fuel burned off in minutes, but here's the thing, it set the whole contents of the floors on fire as it went.

Look around you in any office or home and name all the things you see that can't burn. You won't come up with much. Plastics and rubbers can have twice the fuel content of coal per pound. That's the fuel that kept the fires going until the fuel was exhausted. Once the buildings collapsed, then the situation was very much like the pre-blast furnace method of smelting iron by making a pit and filling it with ore and charcoal.

 

[emzie]

Excellent troll.

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[Great Librarian]

Thermite. Which could occure quiet naturally in a building.

Thermite is an incendiary that burns very hot and very fast and requires an initial source that is very hot to ignite it. It cannot be used as a fuel and it doesn't explode. Thermite fails to provide a viable explanation as to how metal of the sort described in the OP could melt as it apparently did.

(Keep in mind that the buildings collapsed in mere seconds.) Now, the metal never necessarily even had to become molten to end up in the state that it did. The fires were hot enough for the metal support beams to act as vicsoplastics. This would have been sufficient to initiate the collapse of floors at the impact sight and those above. The crushing force of those floors as they fell onto floors below them is sufficient for subsequent floors to collapse, resulting in the total collapse of the buildings.

A lot of energy was transferred from the collapsing floors onto those below them and a lot of potential energy was released during the free fall of those floors above onto those below. The energy released by the floors as they collapsed one on top of another had to go somewhere. Much of this kinetic energy would have dissipated to heat and much of it would have caused the further failing of the metal supports (which were never intended to hold up the combined weight of the floors above them, but, rather, to transfer carrying loads from the beams above them to those below them in a chain to the massive footings of the buildings).

The metal twisting and warping as the buildings collapsed would have generated a lot of heat and combined with the heat generated by the buildings' collapse would be sufficient to 'melt' the metal together or deform it such that it would have appeared to have been, at some point, flowing or molten. More likely is that the metal was more squished and deformed because it was considerably softened and put under stresses which would have caused otherwise odd things to happen.

The point is, however, that there is nothing magical, whatever the explanation, required in an explanation of the events surrounding the collapse or the collapse themselves. The case of the metal is not so much a mystery as it is poorly understood.

 

[Kerozine]

High impact collision shredded off the fire resistant materials off the steel beams and rendered fire prevention mechanisms impotent (e.g. sprinkler water pressure). Jet fuel ignited flammable materials in the building, turning the towers into a giant furnace, threatening the structural integrity of the building and Bob's your uncle.

 

[WICKLC1]

If you compare the WTC collapsing to a controlled demolition, you will see that they do not look alike at all. You can see that the section of the buildings above where the planes hit collapse upon the rest of the building. If it were controlled, the bulding would have collapsed evenly.

Also, as others have been saying, the steel does not have to melt for the building to collapse, in reality, even a relatively small rise in temperature (a few hundred degrees), would severely weaken the steel.

 

[ThePrussian]

Also, as others have been saying, the steel does not have to melt for the building to collapse, in reality, even a relatively small rise in temperature (a few hundred degrees), would severely weaken the steel.

There is evidence that the fires were hotter than most people think. They found evidence of boiled lead, boiled aluminumsilicates. The latter requires 5000 degrees Fahrenheit.

 

[Cutlass]

There is evidence that the fires were hotter than most people think. They found evidence of boiled lead, boiled aluminumsilicates. The latter requires 5000 degrees Fahrenheit.

Blast furnace

As I said, nearly the whole contents of an office are fuel. Once all of the windows and interior particains and windows were blown out, the wind whistling through those upper floors would generate that kind of heat. Once the building collapsed, you have a contained fire with a lot of high quality fuel.

 

[RalofTyr]

You people, it's all a conspiracy. It was planned and carried out by MOSSAD as a way to get the US involved with the removal of Saddam Hussein, thereby removing the primary threat to Iran, moving Israel and Iran as dominating players in the region, thereby, the Israelis hope that Iran will nuke them, so they can get more US sympathy.

We're through the looking glass here ppl.