9/11 Destruction Essay

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Deconstruction factors to death toll on 9/11
The Deconstruction of the building is one of the most important aspects of the building, The resources that i have found are related to the topic i have chosen (buildings systems) because it goes over important aspects of the building and helps us recognize how that these factors are related to the topic and also to help show that these where a large part of the death. The research that is to be presented is related to the factors of death on 9/11. The most contributing factors of the death on 9/11 was the Building system’s and how they were not completely prepared or not tested.
On the event of 9/11 when the plane hit there was an immense amount of fuel that was spillet throughout the building streaming down the internals of the buildings walls not only was this jet fuel but it was on fire burning 1,500 Degrees Fahrenheit on the new webbed trusses. it takes 2,750 Degrees Fahrenheit to melt metal it did not melt the beams in the twin towers but nearly weekend them to a point where it loses structure strength which requires much less heat the webbed …show more content…

But (page 67)”Yet no one had experience in fireproofing those webbed trusses”.The port authority had an event where small fires would happen in february 1975 had caused parts of the floors to buckle and the fire damaged floors in the 9th to the 16th floor, but before this event in 1969 also in this same year they removed the order that the towers should be able to withstand 2-3 hours of fire, depending on the area but before this was set in place The port authority ordered to have the trussed sprayed with a half inch of fireproofing but no one can say why. The question on this order is “would it be possible to apply the mineral to such skinny parts and make it stick to the buildings that would be in constant motion from the wind? Again, the records are bereft of any

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