Heiwa,
Yes, the mast was like a flag pole. Not very heavy. The vertical load could easily be transmitted downwards by structure below. Transverse wind loads?
They produce a bending moment at the bottom, blue platform. Which is transmitted via the hat truss frames to the core and perimeter columns as shear forces/moments.
A "bending moment in the blue platform ... is transmitted to the core & perimeter columns as SHEAR forces"???
Are you REALLY sure you want to stick with that statement??
Did you say that you are allegedly a mechanical engineer...??
But on 911 there was no wind load. But suddenly, the mast dropped ... before ... anything else happened to the tower! Very strange!
"Before anything else happened to the tower..."??
Apparently, you consider "a plane crashing into the towers, massive damage, fires, failures, creep, progressive lean, etc" to be equivalent to "nothing", eh?
Did you say that you are allegedly a Mechanical Engineer?
With all these supports below and around - why would the mast drop BEFORE the roof line started to drop and BEFORE any visible structure below was destroyed? ????
Perhaps because you cannot see THRU solid walls & billowing smoke?
Perhaps because you are asserting, with precisely zero basis, that "nothing has happened" to the core that you CANNOT SEE.
Better answer: Heiwa's baseless assumption about the condition of the core that he cannot see.
Better answer yet: there has been a failure in the core columns that happens a fraction of a second before the failure of the peripheral columns.
To destroy WTC 1 you had to soften the structure everywhere ...
Did you say that you are allegedly a Mechanical Engineer?
The building softened, yielded and failed at the 98th floor. The core failed a fraction of a second before the peripheral columns. What, exactly, do your alleged mechanical engineering experience tell you should happen when a couple tens of thousands of tons of the core column assembly with the antenna on top fails. Should that whole assembly simply sit there in space? Levitating, while waiting for the rest of the building to also decide to fail??
Is this what passes for Mechanical Engineering in Europe?
I am prepared to be VERY surprised, because I was under the firm impression that Europe produced some competent engineers.
... before blowing it down from top to bottom and the criminals blow off the mast supports a little too early.
Of course they did. With what, Mr. Mechanical Engineer?? Silent explosives? Mini-nukes?? Thermate?? Thermite?? Perhaps termites??
What percent of columns per floor did they have to "remove" in order for the upper part to descend as fast as it did, Heiwa?
100%?
75%?
50%?
25%?
Please, your best estimate.
Of course, they had planned the crime for years before and in every detail ... but they messed up. The mast went down too early! Another smoking gun ... among many others.
Exactly how much sooner than the roofline did the antenna begin to fall?
One problem! These criminals are armed to the teeth with guns not yet smoking. Beware.
And yet, somehow, you sit over there, in France, fat, dumb & happy (a description properly "center weighted") & not "disappeared".
Do you think that the US's deep, dark spook network, out assassination squads, find the fine country of France to be "impenetrable"?? And you sit there, exposing the biggest, darkest secret out country has, with calm "sange froid".
How mysterious...
If you'd like, I could bring your postings to the attention of the NSA over here. Then perhaps we could have a real, objective experiment as to whether or not you are REALLY threatening the reputation of the US for history. I am quite certain that Misters Jones, Jones, Fetzer, Griffin, Barret, Ryan, Harrit, et al, will provide you with quite functional "coal mine canaries".
tom
