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The Total Collapse of the Twin Towers: What It Would Have Taken to Prevent It Once Collapse Was Initiated
| 题名： | The Total Collapse of the Twin Towers: What It Would Have Taken to Prevent It Once Collapse Was Initiated |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | Lalkovski, Nikolay;Starossek, Uwe |
| 作者单位： | Hamburg Univ Technol Struct Anal Inst Denickestr 17 D-21073 Hamburg Germany;Hamburg Univ Technol Struct Anal Inst Denickestr 17 D-21073 Hamburg Germany |
| 摘要： | It is generally taken as a given that there is no reasonable design concept that could have prevented the collapse of the Twin Towers, once it was initiated, from progressing all the way down to the ground. This view is rooted in the idea that the force generated during the inevitable impact between what may be called the intact upper section (IUS) and the intact lower section (ILS)-meaning the building sections above and below the initially lost columns, respectively-will exceed by at least one order of magnitude the capacity of the latter. On closer inspection, this turns out to be only partially correct-it is correct with regard to the topmost floor plate of the ILS but not with regard to the columns below this floor plate. This paper shows that if the ILS in the Twin Towers had been topped by a stronger-than-ordinary floor plate allowing the columns below to respond properly, rather than be bypassed, these columns-and with them the ILS-would likely have survived. The paper subsequently proposes a building design concept consisting in the insertion of strengthened floor plates in intervals of 10-20 stories. |
| 出版年： | 2022 |
| 期刊名称： | Journal of structural engineering |
| 卷： | 148 |
| 期： | 2 |
| 页码： | 04021276.1-04021276.12 |
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