Has anyone performed an experiment yet to prove Cole's experiments and conclusions are wrong? I can't seem to find anything.
Oh, cripes.
The clueless Troll is back at it...
It must be truly embarrassing to humiliate yourself in public like this.
Even if you are truly as ignorant as you claim to be.
Some kid, pitching a hissy fit & claiming that "1+3 = 13", and then asserting over & over that "nobody's proved it to be "4" like all you Government shills are claiming" is a sight to behold.
I wonder what will happen to the kid when he finally grows up...
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I've answered this question for you several times now. Sticking your head up your ... excuse me ... in the sand, does not change that.
Thousands, 10s of thousands of experiments have been performed over the last 75 years that "prove, 100%, unequivocally, that Cole's experiments & conclusions are wrong."
Cole asserting that "scaling doesn't matter" does not make it true. It means that Cole is incompetent.
Cole saying that "only the direction of forces matters" does not make that true either. It confirms that Cole is incompetent.
And both of the statements above, that Cole addresses, means that he has heard others explain that his ignorance of scaling falsifies his experiments. He has heard that, and decided to offer a bunch of absolute BS excuse in order to lie to his clueless, ignorant followers.
And here is proof:
I gave you a link to a 800 page textbook, I gave you a link to an engineering class whose topic is "scaling in structural experiments".
Neither on of these references said one word to the effect that "if the direction of your forces in your models agrees with the direction of forces in the actual structure, then your model is valid & you can ignore the rest of these considerations."
Every single one of those references say, explicitly, that "if you ignore scaling considerations - as described in this course / text book - then your model will give the wrong answers."
So, yes. Thousands, 10s of thousands of experiments have been done that PROVE that Cole's experiments are worthless.
Feel free, now, to stick your head back up your ... excuse me ... back in the sand.
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PS. Regarding what Cole actually did (more specifically, did NOT) model ...
What Cole (cluelessly) paid attention to was the STATIC DEFLECTION RATIO (deflection/length) of a floor segment. Did the STATIC deflection ratio play any role whatsoever in the failure of tower components? Answer: No, it did not.
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What was the KEY component of the towers that Cole needed to model?
Was it:
- the floors?
- the columns?
- the connections?
Here's a hint: What was the PRIMARY component that failed?
You should really, really consider #3 carefully.
Did Cole make any attempt whatsoever to accurately model (read "scale") the connections?
Hell, no.
Why didn't he do this?
Because Cole is incompetent.
Just like his model.
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What property of the connections should Cole have paid attention to?
- the static load carrying capacity?
- the static strain of the connections?
- the toughness (i.e., "energy absorption capacity") of the connection?
You should really, really consider #3 carefully.
Did Cole make any attempt whatsoever to accurately model (read "scale") the toughness of the connections in his model?
Hell, no.
Why didn't he do this?
Because Cole is incompetent.
Just like his model.