Temperature of the burning jet fuel melted the steal supports.
At 01:14 AM 9/12/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>Is there anyone among you more technically (construction) egineered that
>to a layman can explain why the buildings actually collapsed. I mean
>constructionwise.
>Is the sheer weight, the pressure from the collapsed top floors falling
>down on the ones below, enough to cause the total collapse?
>Is there anything in the way they are constructed that would have
>prevented the buildings from falling over (like falling on surrounding areas)?
>
>(However, we can be grateful for the amount of time it actually did
>withstand before collapsing, which probably gave some thousands (?) of
>people the chance to get out alive from there alive.)
>
>Lasse
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