I'm not a structural engineer, and I would never claim that I have the expertise to question a credible paper on the subject.
It's hilarious that you don't recognize the contradiction built into this one sentence.
You're a 100% amateur.
And, in spite of this glaringly obvious fact proven by your every post, you delude yourself into thinking that you can determine what is a "credible" paper in structural engineering.
Such scorching irony...
The issue is that the claims being made by the so-called experts here are so flawed that anyone can see through them.
Blisering irony.
You're a clueless amateur.
You refuse to listen.
You refuse to debate honestly.
You refuse to learn anything.
Yet you think that you are competent enough to judge the claims of professionals (e.g., many here, including me) and other intelligent people who are smart enough to listen carefully to professionals (such as NIST), and other structural engineers.
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Do you think that you're the first one to come here with your "mission".
You decided, before you even showed up, that you were going to go to that (ex-JREF) site & give those duh-bunkers "the business".
You know this.
We know this.
You view your determined refusal to concede any point as some Quixotic mission.
In reality, it is cowardice.
You refuse to debate honestly, because you know that you can't make compelling arguments. The best you can do is to retreat behind your "I'm not an expert" shield, demand that others make compelling arguments, and then, in spite of your ignorance, announce that you reject others arguments.
A 5 year old could execute this silliness.
An honest 5 year old would understand, & admit, that he doesn't understand the issues.
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Because of the wide diversity of experience in the posters, the majority of people have contributed to the discussion.
And everyone here has learned. Learned lots of things.
Including me.
Perhaps especially me.
We all learned by listening.
And then we learned more, through open, mostly respectful, occasionally contentious discussion. Because a bunch of the points did not emerge fully formed, but emerged over time & over discussion.
Your approach is the bleeding antithesis of "respectful exchange of information". Or even "challenging exchange of information."
Yours is the clueless, Monty Python, "no, it's not."
Monty Python's schtick was a good joke.
Yours isn't.