Question for the top engineering schools

[TokenMac]

bofor claimed to have sent this e-mail to some of top engineers at The University of Michigan civil engineering faculty, and found that some don't agree with NIST, but he has refused to post any the reply that states a such.

Dear Prof. XXXXXX,

I am a COE alumni from the Materials Science & Engineering Department.

I have been studying the NIST report on the collapse of World Trade
Center building 7 (WTC 7) which occurred on 9/11 and concerned about
its implications.

I am wondering if you are familiar with this topic and if you are
convinced that NIST has in fact discovered a "new phenomenon" (thermal
expansion) that can cause buildings to spontaneously collapse in a
manner that otherwise appears to be a controlled demolition?

Sincerely yours,
~John Philip Anderson
BSE'92, MSE'93, Doctoral Candidate'95
The University of Michigan, College of Engineering

He would now like to figure out some questions that any of us can use to ask to the top engineering schools in the US on our own.

I have started this thread to stop the derailing of NagP's thread.
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=140514&page=4

 

[Baylor]

Cool Cool. I don't think it'll be the least bit productive, but it'll at least give NagP's poor thread a rest.

 

[Galileo]

bofor claimed to have sent this e-mail to some of top engineers at The University of Michigan civil engineering faculty, and found that some don't agree with NIST, but he has refused to post any the reply that states a such.



He would now like to figure out some questions that any of us can use to ask to the top engineering schools in the US on our own.

I have started this thread to stop the derailing of NagP's thread.
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=140514&page=4

No, steel framed building don't just fall down from thermal expansion.

Since the late 1800s, many thousands of steel framed building have been subjected to fires, bombs, flying objects, sunlight, hot weather, lightning, etc.

'Cept WTC 7

 

[Arus808]

No, steel framed building don't just fall down from thermal expansion.

actually false. there have been several structures (steel) that have fallen due to fire (causing thermal expansion)

thermal expansion is not a new concept, and anyone who thinks that it is, hasn't been around for the last 30 years.

 

[ozeco41]

Why would any competent engineering school answer such a ridiculously structured question.

I am wondering if you are familiar with this topic and if you are
convinced that NIST has in fact discovered a "new phenomenon" (thermal
expansion) that can cause buildings to spontaneously collapse in a
manner that otherwise appears to be a controlled demolition?

The very idea that am alleged "doctoral candidate" could call "thermal expanasion" a new phenomenon is ludicrous.

That thermal expansion can cause structures to fail is well established. In my school days every child knew why gaps were left in the railway lines of those days. Allowing for firs induced thermal expansion is obviously more complex. But the same alleged doctoral candidate should know that buildings are designed to \have fire fighting and fire resistance accommodated. The thermal factors which initiated the WTC 7 collapse occurred hours after that collapse was already inevitable. The question is an anachronistic nonsense.

And the latest slant on the GodDidIt False Dilemma needs no comment....

...except that any University school which fell for such and obvious "leading the answer should not be in business teaching anything....

Kindergarten Games.

 

[TJM]

No, steel framed building don't just fall down from thermal expansion.

Since the late 1800s, many thousands of steel framed building have been subjected to fires, bombs, flying objects, sunlight, hot weather, lightning, etc.

'Cept WTC 7

your post makes no sense.