Even if all energy of the fuel was used for the first floor then it would only reach 255 degrees celsius, that's not much for only one floor
http://www.uscrusade.com/forum/config.pl/read/1064
Calculations proved wrong just by observation. Got to love it.
Kind of sad, WTC was sagging, you know, it looks like something made the building sag. Was it the heat?
WTC failed, there were no explosives, did the steel mess up and not read your posted calculations?
My Doltish smart remarks aside, an observable failure due just to fire and building contents. No extra fuel, no extra impact energy.
The building in Madrid steel only sections could not of failed and since there was no fuel, the steel of the Madrid building is still standing? NOT
See how the steel is sagging and deforming just in a building fire. By the way the central portion of this building is with concrete, a good insulator, keeps heat away from steel for a long time.
Look closely, the steel only portions are gone, in just a few hours. Above steel sections are failing, and below they are fallen.
Just a note, the building is too weak to keep. Due to fire. Your post calculations are missing something. Bet some people here actually have the real models to help understand why fires can do this.
50 percent of the top section, the steel section is gone, the concrete is there. 3 little pigs will use concrete in their next building!!!
Even though proved wrong by events, the calculation did have the 315 tons of TNT as the energy in the 10,000 gallons of fuel (1,320,000,000,000 Joules). Neat when a CT source has good numbers. Bad when they have bad models.
What would your posted model say about the Madrid building with no extra fuel? Would it say the steel would not fail? Your post calculations would mean no building's steel would ever be comprimised.
Check out how many of the CT examples of fires in high rises are still standing? (3 out of 5)
Some good numbers, wrong model? Who calculated this stuff?
But since the building actually buckled and deformed, I think this guy is not a scientist. The NIST information is taken out of context.