Well... another year has gone by, and another 9/11 anniversary. I stop in here, and what's there to see? AE911T
still thinks that the nitpickery of minutiae over a single, isolated element will somehow be the magic key that demonstrates a collapse of WTC 7 couldn't happen.
In other words, nothing new.
Yeah, next year is the 20th anniversary.
20th!! I guess resurrected claims will come back into style out of nostalgia...
So anyway, what in heaven's name is this current focus by the Architects and Engineers group on the expansion and supposed non-walkoff of the column anyway? If the column is expanding and even walking off a bit (their argument is that it's just not enough?) it's already causing a load transfer, right? So at that point, it's already a dynamic system, and AE911T is simply trying to insist that
one possible outcome (trapping of the column) out of God knows how many is THE outcome.
Have I got that right? Why would the "trapping" actually stop the collapse? It's not like the loads would go away, right? If anything, they're all eccentric now and causing tension and compression forces elsewhere, I'd think. So what's the argument that it would stop? Seems to me that they're trying to say the snowball gets stuck behind the boulder, therefore the avalanche never takes place. But who am I; I'm no engineer.
Anyway... MileHigh? Dave Rogers? Ozeco41?? Yeah, it's me, EMH, the guy who hasn't been around for years. I'm trying to get my yearly Sept. 11 visit in before that AJM8125 attempts to make me dicks a potato...
