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To: Gib Bogle who wrote (65035)6/14/2005 5:32:54 PM
From: Gib Bogle  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74559
 
I mean burn the contents, of course. Not the concrete and steel.

The collapse is no engineering mystery. When one (or two) levels of steel softened and gave way, the resulting impact load of the upper levels crashing exceeded anything the designers had considered, and broke the next level down. This continued as a kind of domino effect.

Gib