Christopher7
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The beams and girders had a 2 hr fire rating. The fires burned for about 20 min an any given area. There is no reason to assume that there were collapsed floors.You think an office fire resembles a fire in an open space with no air movement? Collapsed floors, collapsing floors, broken windows can all cause interruptions to fire movement or change its direction entirely.
NIST used case B (+10%) in their models. They did NOT give the results for case A (actual temps from another computer model) nor did they give the input data.
Not including the case A results is a delibrate obsfucation of the data.
This is unacceptable in a scientific report.
Good point.Also, why would I claim to be an expert? You don't think I would need to be one, therefor my considerations are just as valid as yours.
Both points of view should be considered on their merit.
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