Tony Szamboti Publishes a Technical Paper about 9/11 Truth
...and last time I looked AAH was
<<<<<<that way.
True nuff
discussion drifted away from the subject about the same time T Sz drifted away from this thread.
The paper which is the topic of this thread has two main points:
1) The assumption underpinning B&Z 2001-2002 - for moot purposes supporting an abstract "limiting case" model. That assumption was that collapse at WTC1-2 had columns remaining in line. We know that it did not happen that way in the real collapse; AND
of course the hilited portion above is the salient point. B & Z knew they were doing a first approximation. T Sz assumes otherwise for some odd reason.
Status of discussion of the OP is:
The key question raised by debunkers is 'Even if the claims of the paper are correct "So What?" '
Tony Sz has not defended his paper - with the assistance of a lot of us he kept the thread derailed thereby avoiding answering "So What?"
<<sighs>> tis true
My assessment of the status of discussion is:
1) We know that columns were not in line in the real event. And Tony Sz is the only one who keeps making claims based on columns remaining in line whilst authoring a paper that purports to show that they were not. (

Read it again - that is the inevitable conclusion of what he claims in this thread IMO.

)
HOWEVER the rest of us know the columns were not in line. Bazant knew that back in 2001-2 when he and Zhou put forward the paper.
Tony seems to have muddled his thoughts on this but perhaps I can put words in his mouth to explain his position.
He is saying that in order to collapse the columns cannot line up. Not neccessarily true but it would make it less likely in a light wind for a whole structure(which the upper section of the towers were not).
He then says that if the columns were aligned and dropped upon each other that there would be a jolt as the contacted.
Now this is where its rather strange since in order to do this the upper section must be separated from the lower, and that never occured. No one lifted the upper section. So the only way to do such a thing would be to blow out a section of the columns cleanly. Now, with a section of column removed the upper section would drop and the column ends would, in theory, meet and there would be a jolt. But there is no jolt so this scenario also did not occur. However, in a common CD there are secondary charges on the column ends to push them to one side to allow the ends to pass each other.
THIS is what T Sz is saying must have occured because there was no jolt. Unfortunately in the case of columns failing due to heat weakening, in a structure that is tilting, columns will also not meet and there will be no jolt.
2) So what if Bazant's numbers were wrong? Does it matter in 2013? If so how? If so why?
It matters little except in the case where one wishes to illustrate the magnitude of the overload on the floors. In their original paper B & Z had a minimum of 30X over design. They assumed that this was sufficient to show that further detailing would still show that the building's systems were vastly overloaded once collapse initiated.
3) Even if Bazant's numbers were wrong AND NIST relied on them to conclude that "global collapse was inevitable" the current status is that clever people (Guess who that includes

) ... know that "global collapse
was inevitable".
It was pretty obvious after the first second or so, though part of me was silently yelling "NO!", in common human denial of the horror I was witnessing. I recall wondering if, hoping that, everyone got out.
At worst NIST may have got the right answer for the wrong reason and Tony won't say why he thinks it matters.
Since his assumptions are all muddled up in the first place I would say its a lost cause. Perhaps at some point he will try again.
However, the whole exercise has the 911 truth thing all bassackwards anyway.
So what if NIST or Bazant or anyone else got it wrong. AE911T wants to know the 'truth' so why are they not instead pursueing a BETTER scenario and explanation of the collapses?
Because, as T Sz illustrates, they have their assumptions and reasoning all muddled up.
Does anyone wants to discuss the topic?
Sure, if anyone has anything new or further to say about it.