Tony,
Dr. Bazant, the man who uses freefall through the first story to gain nearly three times the velocity input to the kinetic energy, 58 x 10e6 kg instead of the actual 33 x 10e6 kg mass of the North Tower upper section, and about 60% of the actual column resistance to come up with a kinetic energy to resistance ratio that is overstated by about 8.5 times?
Is that the Dr. Bazant you are taking about? If so,
Dr. Zdenek Bazant
Bazant's CV:
http://www.civil.northwestern.edu/do...ant/resume.pdf
Bazant's list of publications:
http://www.civil.northwestern.edu/do...t/publicat.pdf
Highlights:
Education
C.E., Czech Technical University, Prague, Civil Engineering (Structural Engineering) 1960
Ph.D. (in mechanics)., Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague 1963
Postgraduate diploma in Physics, Charles University, Prague 1966
Docent habil., Czech Technical University, Prague 1967
S.E. 1970, Illinois Registered Structural Engineer
Research
Prof. Bazant's interest spans mechanics of materials and structures, structural safety, response uncertainty, and engineering applications. The current investigations include some fundamental problems in the field of quasibrittle fracture and damage mechanics, fracture scaling and its asymptotics, size effects, probabilistic mechanics and extreme value statistics, ... constitutive models, progressive collapse of buildings, missile impact, seismic response, ... chemical reaction kinetics, ... , thermodynamics, poromechanics, ... His research team has been developing material models for fiber composites, concrete, rocks and soils, sea ice, snow, tough ceramics, sandwich shells, rigid foams, cellular materials, bone, and shape memory alloys. Applications have covered structural and aero-space engineering, building codes, ship design, automotive crashworthiness, arctic engineering, earthquake engineering and nuclear safety. Although the emphasis is theoretical, his team also conducts specialized fracture testing of composites, concretes and rocks. Computational modeling is a heavy component in each problem, but Bazant's attitude is to seek first analytical solutions and asymptotics-based approximations. The current and recent research sponsors include NSF, ONR, DoT, WES, ARO, DoE, AFOSR, Sandia N.L., Chrysler, Boeing, Cirrus Aircraft, and Argonne N.L.
Teaching Activities
Inelastic Analysis of Structures
Stability of Structures
Cohesive Fracture and Scaling
Honors and Awards
Elected to:
National Academy of Sciences;
National Academy of Engineering;
American Academy of Arts and Sciences;
Austrian Academy of Sciences;
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome);
Spanish Royal Academy of Engrg.;
Engrg. Academy of Czech Rep.;
Academia di Scienze e Lettere (Milan);
European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Six Honary Doctorates (Boulder, Prague, Karlsruhe, Milan, Lyon, Vienna).
Awards & Prizes
Prager Medal from Society of Engineering Sciences;
von Karman Medal;
Newmark Medal;
Lifetime Achievement Award;
Croes Medal;
Huber Prize and TY Lin Award from ASCE;
Honarary Member ASCE;
Nadai Medal and Warner Medal from ASME;
L'Hermite Medal from RILEM;
Exner Medal, Austria;
Humboldt Prize, Germany;
Torroja Medal, Spain;
Solin Medal, Prague;
Z. Bazant (Sr.) Medal, Prague;
Stodola Medal, Slovakia;
Roy Award, Am.Ceramic Soc.;
ICOSSAR Award;
Czech Soc. for Mech. Medal;
Outstanding Contribution Award, IACMAS;
Guggenheim, NATO, JSPS, Humboldt, Ford and Kajima Fellowships;
National Winner, 1958 Math.Olympics, Czechoslovakia;
Among
top 100 Highly Cited Scientist in Engineering ( >
9300 citations )
Former President of SES, IA-FRAMCOS (founder) and IA-CONCREEP (founder);
Former Editor, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE.
Selected Publications
Textbooks (Number: 6) including:
Bazant, Z.P., and Cedolin, L. (1991).
Stability of Structures: Elastic, Inelastic, Fracture and Damage Theories, Oxford University Press, New York (textbook and reference volume); republished (with updates) by Dover Publications (No. 42568-1), New York 2003 (1011 pp. + xxiv pp.).
Jirasek, M., and Bazant, Z.P. (2002).
Inelastic Analysis of Structures. J. Wiley & Sons, London and New York (textbook and reference volume, 735 + xviii pp.).
Bazant, Z.P. (2002). Scaling of Structural Strength. Hermes Penton Science (Kogan Page Science), London; 2nd updated ed., Elsevier, London 2005
Books Edited with Chapter Contributions (Number: 20) including:
Bazant, Z.P., Bittnar, Z., Jirasek, M., and Mazars, J., Editors (1994).
Fracture and Damage in Quasibrittle Structures: Experiment, Theory and Computer Modeling
Bazant, Z.P., and Ra japakse, Y.D.S., Editors (1999). Fracture Scaling (Proc., ONR Workshop on Fracture Scaling, University of Maryland, College Park, June 10–12, 1999
Xi, Y., Bazant, Z.P., Pijaudier-Cabot, G., and Bittnar, Z., Guest Editors (2005). Model-Based Simulation of Durability of Materials and Structures, special issue of J. of Materials Engineering ASCE 17 (3), 239– 369 (with Editorial, pp. 239–240).
Bazant, Z.P., and Cedolin, L. (1991). "
Stability of Structures: Elastic, Inelastic, Fracture and Damage Theories", Oxford University Press, New York (textbook and reference volume, 984 + xxiv pp.).
Bazant, Z.P. (2002). "Scaling of Structural Strength." Hermes Penton Science, London (French transl. with updates, Hermes, Paris, 2004).
Bazant, Z.P. (2004). "Scaling theory for quasibrittle structural failure." Proc., National Academy of Sciences 101 (37), 13397-13399 (inaugural article).
State-of-Art Articles and Research Review Articles (Number: 51)
Published Biographies and Volumes Dedicated to Bazant (Number: 12)
Research Articles in Conference Proceedings (Number: 208)
Public Policy Contributions (Number: 5)
Research Articles in Refereed Journals and Book Chapters (Number: 484), including:
Bazant, Z.P. (2001). “Why did the World Trade Center collapse?” SIAM News (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Vol. 34, No. 8
Bazant, Z.P., and Zhou, Y. (2001). “Why did the World Trade Center collapse?—Simple analysis.” Building Research Journal 49 (3), 135–146
Bazant, Z.P., and Zhou, Y. (2002). “Why did the World Trade Center collapse?—Simple analysis.” J. of Engrg. Mechanics ASCE 128 (No. 1), 2–6;
Bazant, Z.P., and Verdure, M. (2007). “Mechanics of progressive collapse: Learning from World Trade Center and building demolitions.” J. of Engrg. Mechanics ASCE 133 (3), 308–319.
Guo, Z., and Bazant, Z.P. (2006). “Size effect on buckling strength of eccentrically compressed column with fixed or propagating transverse crack.” Int. J. of Fracture 142, 151–162.
Bazant, Z.P., Le, J.-L., Greening, F.R., and Benson, D.B. (2008). “What did and did not cause collapse of World Trade Center twin towers in New York?”. J. of Engrg. Mechanics ASCE 134 (10) 892–906. (5), p. 54.
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Tony Szamboti's resume:
BSME.
Highlights: AE911T engineering guru??
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Talk about being down 35 - 0 in the bottom of the 9th, 2 out, nobody on, 0 & 2 pitch to Mr. Magoo at the plate…
What am I saying. That's all wrong.
The lights went out, the crowd went home about 2007.
Somebody please tell Tony that he was called out on the next pitch.
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That's some raging case of Unprofessionalism you've got there, Tony.
You'd best never aspire to become a PE with that lack of professional ethics.
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PS. Why don't you stop, no REALLY stop, and read thru that CV. That's the ABBREVIATED version!!
No, REALLY read thru it, not just the bold parts. Not skip over it because you don't want to know.
Then come back with your laughing dogs...
PPS. ... putz.
The breeze from the NW was blowing thru the building, mixing with and cooling the hot gasses from the fire. If you want to know exactly how much, do the math yourself.
