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WTC7 - The fires failed Girder 44-79

Then MM, after you've done what I asked in my above post, please tell me how the NIST discovered that "shear studs would have totally undermined their steel expansion hypothesis" when the shear studs on the girders in question never existed in the first place?

Can you explain that to me please?
 
For MM,

Here is a section of a drawing from Frankel Steel for floors 12 and 13 showing the girder between column 44 and 79:
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On that same drawing is this note:
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Field applied shear studs were denoted on the drawings with "<XX> per the note above.

Here is a section of the Emery, Roth & Sons drawing S-8, which was typical for floors 8 through 20 and floors 24 to 45:
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Do you see the red rectangle around the girder in those two images above? Do you see a "<XX> designation on either drawing? No?

Do you see the red circles on those two images above? Do you see the "<24>" designation for 24 field applied shear studs on that same beam in both images? Yes?

So tell us again how NIST discovered their error of shear studs on the girders when no shear studs existed on those girders to begin with.

This is why gerrycan tried to argue that there were should have been more drawings for the individual floors in the Emery set because of drawings S-8-10, S-8-19, and S-8-20. He incorrectly assumed that because there were those three drawings, there should be drawings like that for ALL the floors.

Those three drawings were made by copying drawing S-8 and then had the plate revision (plates added to the bottom of some of the beams) added for those three floors only.

gerrycan is completely out of his league. He knows nothing of reading construction drawings.
 
Wouldn’t you need:
-Length of girder (W33x130) between column 79 and 44
-Length of beams (W24x55) connecting girder to the perimeter columns 41-38
-Length and cross-section of spandrel beams connecting perimeter columns 44-38
-Size of seat on column 79
-x-y coordinates of column 79, 44, 43, 42 41, 40, 39, and 38 (for exact location of beams)(Figure 8-16 NIST NCSTAR 1-9 page 343)

Column 79 was a W14x730 with welded steel plates on the sides (section 4.7.2 NIST NCSTAR 1-9 page 81)
Assume other columns to be W14x500 (section 4.7.2 NIST NCSTAR 1-9 page 81)

No…Tony’s model assumes the beam to column connections (4 - 7/8” HS bolts) have already failed, and the floor beams are just sitting on their bearing seats.

I will calculate the original column axial load capacity with the column connected and braced at each floor. Then I will calculate the final axial load capacity when the column is unbraced for nine floors, and compare that to the original.

Additionally, I will look at the maximum lateral deflection the column can achieve before going into critical buckling failure.
 
"Note to Gamolon: There are more problems with the NIST WTC7 final report than whether or not you agree about the "shear studs"."
"Show me one drawing that shows any shear studs, field applied or not, on the girder between column 44 and 79, for floors 8 to 20 or floors 24 to 45, aside from the three drawings created for floors 10, 19, and 20."

To quote the author of the referred to videos;
71gerry said:
"The stud issue alone is significant, but there are far bigger problems for NISTs story…"

The real issue, is whether or not the fires forced the walkoff failure of the girder connecting column 79 to column 44 on the 13th floor of WTC7.

You seem to only want to address the issue of shear studs while ignoring the rest of my post?

Why do you ignore the more important problem with the NIST story, the amount of required floor beam expansion necessary to push the girder off its seat at column 79?

As I pointed out in my earlier post, the NIST released an erratum document in June of 2012 where they acknowledged that the column 79 seat had a 12 inch width and not an 11 inch width as stated in their 2008 Final Report.

In the same erratum document, the NIST claimed a transposition error had coincidentally occurred for the amount of floor beam expansion. Instead of 5.5 inches, the NIST stated it should have been 6.25 inches. Conveniently, this was enough to support their walkoff hypothesis.

Two major errors, for dimensions crucial to the NIST's WTC7 collapse initiation hypothesis. For a report that was 7 years in preparation, this represented incredibly poor proofreading. And not reported until 4 years after the final report had been released.

But here is the crux of the problem.

For those floor beams to push the girder connecting column 79 to column 44 off its seat, the NIST in their 2012 document adjusted the amount of heat-induced steel expansion from 5.5 to 6.25 inches. The steel temperature required to attain an expansion of 6.25 inches has to be around 736C.

But, at that temperature, the NIST has already claimed the steel girders would lose significant strength and be sagging. Therefore, no longer pushing.

The NIST have not explained that contradiction, nor have they explained why they ignored stiffeners which are clearly marked in shop drawings and would have required the girder to have been pushed even further before failure.

So even if we set the issue of shear studs aside, as Gerry said; "there are far bigger problems for NISTs story"…"

If the floor beams were unable to push the girder off its seat, the whole NIST hypothesis collapses and WTC7 collapsed from a totally different cause.

MM
 
MM…the problem is…the girder doesn’t slide off the bearing seat…the whole connection rips apart.

Even Tony emits there is enough force built up thru thermal expansion to fail the 4 – 7/8” high strength bolts connecting the girder to column. When the bolts fail, they release anywhere from 60,000 to 100,000 pounds of force. That force will rip thru remaining parts of the connection, tearing everything apart.

You don’t have to worry about the girder coming off the bearing seat, because the bearing seat will be gone!
 
MM…the problem is…the girder doesn’t slide off the bearing seat…the whole connection rips apart.

Even Tony emits there is enough force built up thru thermal expansion to fail the 4 – 7/8” high strength bolts connecting the girder to column. When the bolts fail, they release anywhere from 60,000 to 100,000 pounds of force. That force will rip thru remaining parts of the connection, tearing everything apart.

You don’t have to worry about the girder coming off the bearing seat, because the bearing seat will be gone!

There are all kinds of things happening, movement in the column, bending/buckling/sagging of the girder, bending/buckling/sagging of the floor beams. Creep. Then there is the stiffener on the joist seat that NIST ADDED to simplify their calculation that in reality was not there. (You don't see troofer mention of that :eek:) This is simply a wash rinse repeat cycle. Time has past since the last slap down of this crazy notion, so now it had become time to repeat it as a "fresh" idea.
 
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There are all kinds of things happening, movement in the column, bending/buckling/sagging of the girder, bending/buckling/sagging of the floor beams. Creep. Then there is the stiffener on the joist seat that NIST ADDED to simplify their calculation that in reality was not there. (You don't see troofer mention of that :eek:) This is simply a wash rinse repeat cycle. Time has past since the last slap down of this crazy notion, so now it had become time to repeat it as a "fresh" idea.

Agreed...:D
 
To quote the author of the referred to videos;


The real issue, is whether or not the fires forced the walkoff failure of the girder connecting column 79 to column 44 on the 13th floor of WTC7.

You seem to only want to address the issue of shear studs while ignoring the rest of my post?

Why do you ignore the more important problem with the NIST story, the amount of required floor beam expansion necessary to push the girder off its seat at column 79?

As I pointed out in my earlier post, the NIST released an erratum document in June of 2012 where they acknowledged that the column 79 seat had a 12 inch width and not an 11 inch width as stated in their 2008 Final Report.

In the same erratum document, the NIST claimed a transposition error had coincidentally occurred for the amount of floor beam expansion. Instead of 5.5 inches, the NIST stated it should have been 6.25 inches. Conveniently, this was enough to support their walkoff hypothesis.

Two major errors, for dimensions crucial to the NIST's WTC7 collapse initiation hypothesis. For a report that was 7 years in preparation, this represented incredibly poor proofreading. And not reported until 4 years after the final report had been released.

But here is the crux of the problem.

For those floor beams to push the girder connecting column 79 to column 44 off its seat, the NIST in their 2012 document adjusted the amount of heat-induced steel expansion from 5.5 to 6.25 inches. The steel temperature required to attain an expansion of 6.25 inches has to be around 736C.

But, at that temperature, the NIST has already claimed the steel girders would lose significant strength and be sagging. Therefore, no longer pushing.

The NIST have not explained that contradiction, nor have they explained why they ignored stiffeners which are clearly marked in shop drawings and would have required the girder to have been pushed even further before failure.

So even if we set the issue of shear studs aside, as Gerry said; "there are far bigger problems for NISTs story"…"

If the floor beams were unable to push the girder off its seat, the whole NIST hypothesis collapses and WTC7 collapsed from a totally different cause.

MM

Address my points first MM.

You believe 100% of what gerrycan says despite the fact that he has made NUMEROUS errors. I have shown that he does NOT understand how to read construction drawings and how that played into both you and him making erroneous claims about shear studs.

You said NIST discovered that shear studs on the girder would blow their theory out of the water and that's why they changed their report concerning them.

That's total BS and you know it. I asked you to explain how NOIST discovered shear studs on the girders and then changed their minds to fit their cospiracy explanation when no goddamn bolts existed in the foirst place!

I love how you skip over this AND the fact that gerrycan has made numerous mistakes, yet you still find him a credible source. He STILL hasn't corrected or admitted to these errors.

So now that you got your butt handed to you on a subject you considered important enough to post about (shear studs), you want to deflect onto points that I didn't talk about without acknowledging the errors pointed out. Now the shear studs aren't important to you because you and gerrycan were proven WRONG.

How convenient.

Are you going to address the errors he made that I pointed out?
 
MM…the problem is…the girder doesn’t slide off the bearing seat…the whole connection rips apart...
Whilst your claim is probably true "the problem" in this thread and it's associated predecessor thread is broader.

The situation is that certain opponents of the NIST explanation, notably Tony Szamboti and to a lesser extent enik, have kept the objective of discussion ambiguous. And various debunkers have gone along with ambiguities both in objective and scope of WTC 7 structure involved - how far to take the analysis away from the immediate context - the immediately adjacent components - and into more remote parts of structure which may have been involved in the shape distortions leading to failure.

So the discussion has, prior to this thread, fallen into two camps viz:
1) Those debunkers who have either accepted Tony Sz's limited setting for his FEA or some other similarly limited setting and sought to prove Tony wrong within what was more or less Tony's chosen physical context. The status of discussion for this approach is IIRC that several members, now including yourself MHM, have claimed that Tony's FEA is wrong therefore Tony's claim is wrong on the basis of errors at the detail level; AND

2) Myself supported by LSSBB (there may have been others - my apology to any that I have missed.) I took and stand by a different line of argument which complements the more detailed line of argument described under "1)" above. That argument is, stated briefly:
a) Tony S has made claims that the NIST detailed explanation of girder walk off is wrong;
b) Since it is his claim it is his burden of proof to support his claim - not "our" burden of proof to disprove his claim;
c) I challenged Tony on the scope of his FEA to show that he takes into account sufficient of the overall WTC structure that his FEA could be valid - initially it was an assumption that only the girder changed shape and the gap between the columns was unchanged. Later it got somewhat broader but never "proved" that the scope went far enough;
d) Tony has not addressed that failure of his assumptions - it is his burden to do so not "our" burden to show him wrong - so therefore his initial assumptions of context are not supported and his claim is not made out.
e) That fact does not prove him wrong but rigorously shows that his claim is not made out. Which is good enough for my purpose - to show that his claim fails. (And I am well aware that my statement is probably too subtle for many of our members who prefer a more detailed "black or white" style of argument. I ain't disagreeing just adding additional proof. ;) )

Hence my reference in recent post that the "detailed level" arguments have claimed that Tony has been proven wrong and that my arguments show that he has not shown that his claim is right.

The latter position being all that is needed to assert with assurance that his claim fails.

So that deals with the my claim that "the position" has ambiguities of technical scope.

The other ambiguities I referred to - ambiguities of objective - are the usual ones we expect in truther rhetoric. First the underlying issue here is "CD or not?" linked by truther illogic to "Was NIST wrong?" Two separate issues. There either was or was not CD on 9/11 and that is a matter of historic fact. Whether or not NIST got the explanation right X years later cannot change the historic fact. If NIST said "Too much ice cream brought down WTC7" that statement:
1) Would be wrong; AND
2) would not change the historic fact of "CD or not CD?"
Hence the routine confusing of objectives by "truthers" or "trolls" whose goal is to prevent discussion progressing anywhere in the direction of truth.

There have been other ambiguities deployed plus the the global claim error which MM employs in his latest post. Viz "If one minor detail of the NIST report is wrong the whole report collapses." Hogwash and easily shown as hogwash but I won't derail from my focus at this stage.

Now the setting of this thread is more tightly framed.

Essentially the OP has three key aspects:
A) The claim in the title that "The fires failed Girder 44-79";
B) A repetition of the claim that Tony Sz was wrong based on the "detail level" approach I identified earlier; AND
C) This final comment "The girder failed due to fire not CD"

If I revert to my higher level approach I state that both "A" and "C" are true for higher level reasons independent of all the detail level rebuttals.

The situation with all WTC collapses is that there is not and never has been a supported prima facie claim of CD. And, as I said in my previous post, it is a true dichotomy. The options for WTC7 are "fire" or "Fire plus CD in some combination". A true dichotomy.

There was no CD therefore "Fire" - absolutely independent of whether NIST got the detailed explanation right OR whether Tony Sz'z FEA is right or wrong.

So:
- no matter how many times Tony repeats his unsupported assertions;
- no matter how many times MM tries to focus on an irrelevant bit of detail;
- no matter how much the engineers who prefer the detailed technical focus enjoy proving that Tony has his FEA wrong;

etc etc....

The three claims that BasqueArch identified in his OP are correct.
Restated as two claims:
(i)The girder fell as a consequence of fire because the whole building fell as a consequence of fire because there was no CD; AND
(ii) Tony Sz's claims are wrong - to the satisfaction of numerous engineers including yourself who have shown his errors at the details level AND from my perspective - argued and not rebutted in the earlier thread - they fail from Tony's refusal to meet his burden of proof and justify his base assumptions.
 
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Here's what I find extremely funny. You make a statment like this...
Well in the very first video he takes the NIST to task about the 'here today, gone tomorrow' shear studs.

Since the whole NIST WTC7 collapse hypothesis is dependent on those shear studs never existing, the fact that they did exist is extremely important.

MM

...and then post something completely contradictory when you are shown you were completely wrong...

The real issue, is whether or not the fires forced the walkoff failure of the girder connecting column 79 to column 44 on the 13th floor of WTC7.

You seem to only want to address the issue of shear studs while ignoring the rest of my post?

Why do you ignore the more important problem with the NIST story, the amount of required floor beam expansion necessary to push the girder off its seat at column 79?

Read both the above quotes above in red and answer a simple question for me.

How can you, in goof faith, first claim that the NIST hypothesis hinges on those shear studs and then when proven wrong, THEN claim that the shear studs or not the main issue, that it's the horizontal movement of the beam?

As everyone can see, you have a hard time admitting you are WRONG. The above quotes prove this to a tee.
 
MM,

I read these two posts again, and the following two quote magnify just what kind underhanded tactics you try and employ here. It's sad actually:

First quote:
But, as the NIST discovered, shear studs would have totally undermined their steel expansion hypothesis which they used for their final report.

After being proven wrong about shear studs, you change your tune to this:
If the floor beams were unable to push the girder off its seat, the whole NIST hypothesis collapses and WTC7 collapsed from a totally different cause.MM

:D

Nice job!
 
How can you, in goof faith, first claim that the NIST hypothesis hinges on those shear studs and then when proven wrong, THEN claim that the shear studs or not the main issue, that it's the horizontal movement of the beam?

I would change the above hilited misspelling (as pointed out by ozeco41 and was totally unintentional on my part), but I think it fits quite nicely.

:D
 
Actually, it is much simpler that ozeco41’s long discussion. The NIST did an FEA of a girder walk off from Column 79. Both Tony and I recreated that model. Either heat caused enough expansion to push the girder the required distance or it didn’t.

The thread topic started by BasqueArch was “WTC7-Fires failed Girder 44-79”, it wasn’t “Tony’s FEA is wrong, here’s why”. In essence, it is BasqueArch’s burden of proof to prove fire failed girder 44-79.

MHM is taking the approach that it doesn’t matter since once the bolts shear, the girder will rip the seat apart. But if we stick to the facts given in the NIST report:
The failure of the connection (at Column 79) was governed by bolt shear followed by walk-off before loss in vertical support (page 482 NIST NCSTAR 1-9)
They do not allude to any ripping effect.

No matter, MHM has offered to do a buckling analysis of Column 79 rather than a thermal expansion model and I would like to see his results.

I provided him some data for his analysis. Column 79 was a W14x730 with 2” steel plates welded onto the ends. Let us assume each floor height is 12 feet.
 
Once the bolts shear there is no vertical support.

Do you agree?
I do not agree.
…the failure of the connection was governed by tension failure of the top clip angle or bolt shear followed by beam walking-off the seat and loss of vertical support…The failure of the connection was governed by bolt shear followed by walk-off before loss in vertical support. (NIST NCSTAR 1-9 page 482)
 
Actually, it is much simpler that ozeco41’s long discussion. The NIST did an FEA of a girder walk off from Column 79. Both Tony and I recreated that model. Either heat caused enough expansion to push the girder the required distance or it didn’t.

The thread topic started by BasqueArch was “WTC7-Fires failed Girder 44-79”, it wasn’t “Tony’s FEA is wrong, here’s why”. In essence, it is BasqueArch’s burden of proof to prove fire failed girder 44-79.

MHM is taking the approach that it doesn’t matter since once the bolts shear, the girder will rip the seat apart. But if we stick to the facts given in the NIST report:
They do not allude to any ripping effect.

No matter, MHM has offered to do a buckling analysis of Column 79 rather than a thermal expansion model and I would like to see his results.

I provided him some data for his analysis. Column 79 was a W14x730 with 2” steel plates welded onto the ends. Let us assume each floor height is 12 feet.

Wrong, BasqueArch stated why the FEA was wrong in the OP:

I received TS' 5 FEA color slides re the walk-off of the WTC7 girder from its seat. He claims the girder did not buckle. His slides show the girder buckled.

Not shown due to his incomplete FEA, is that the girder bottom flange was pushed off >6.5 inches, past its supporting seat, by the beams. The girder failed due to fire not CD.
That the girder failed due to fire is the only conclusion supported by physical evidence, since no explosive devices were found nor was there any visual or auditory evidence of CD. Therefore the burden of proof that the building could not collapse due to fire still remains on anyone with an alternate theory, and their competing theory needs to also account for the visual and auditory evidence and lack of explosive devices, lack of evidence of their procurement, and lack of evidence of their installation.
 
I do not agree.

Why did you post a quote concerning the failure of the connection?

I asked you, Once the bolts shear there is no vertical support. Think, what is now providing this support.

Why are you posting a NIST quote? I asked you, not NIST.
 
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...their competing theory needs to also account for the visual and auditory evidence and lack of explosive devices, lack of evidence of their procurement, and lack of evidence of their installation.

Actually, there is to some degree evidence of absence and not just lack of evidence. Most obviously there is evidence that explosive sounds (consistent in number, loudness, timing and brisance with high explosives) were absent: We do have as evidence audio documents recorded at the relevant time and close enough to the buildings. They lack the expected sounds.
 

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