Bazant in a nutshell

[pgimeno]

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[ozeco41]

Who is using an excuse of ambiguity? What published paper are you referring to that claims to explain the "pancaking" collapses of the towers?

pgimeno is referring to the paper by Szuladzinski, Szamboti and Johns - probably this bit:

The only complete hypothesis of the global collapse mechanism of the Towers is a successive flattening of stories associated with compressive column failure and referred to as a Progressive Column Failure mode or PCF in brief. (In the past this mode was often referred to as pancaking, but this term is not used here to avoid ambiguities). It is explained here why PCF could not be the mode of the ultimate destruction.