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31. Analysis of Aircraft Impacts into the World Trade Center Towers (Chapters 1-8). Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster (NIST NCSTAR 1-2B) ***DRAFT for Public Comments***
Series: National Construction Safety Team Act Reports (NIST NCSTAR)
Report Number: 1-2
Published: 9/1/2005
Authors: Steven W Kirkpatrick, Robert T. Bocchieri, Fahim H Sadek, R A MacNeill, S Holmes, B D Peterson, R W Cilke, C Navarro
Abstract: The objective of this report was to analyze the aircraft impacts into each of the World Trade Center (WTC) towers to provide the following: (1) estimates of probable damage to structural systems due to aircraft impact, including exterior walls, floor ...
http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=909033

32. Analysis of Aircraft Impacts into the World Trade Center Towers (Chapters 9-11). Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster (NIST NCSTAR 1-2B) ***DRAFT for Public Comments***
Series: National Construction Safety Team Act Reports (NIST NCSTAR)
Report Number: 1-2
Published: 9/1/2005
Authors: Steven W Kirkpatrick, Robert T. Bocchieri, Fahim H Sadek, R A MacNeill, S Holmes, B D Peterson, R W Cilke, C Navarro
Abstract: The objective of this report was to analyze the aircraft impacts into each of the World Trade Center (WTC) towers to provide the following: (1) estimates of probable damage to structural systems due to aircraft impact, including exterior walls, floor ...
http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=909034

33. Baseline Structural Performance and Aircraft Impact Damage Analysis of the World Trade Center Towers. Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster (NIST NCSTAR 1-2) ***DRAFT for Public Comments***
Series: National Construction Safety Team Act Reports (NIST NCSTAR)
Report Number: 1-2
Published: 9/1/2005
Author: Fahim H Sadek
Abstract: The baseline structural performance and aircraft impact damage analysis of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Investigation of the World Trade Center (WTC) disaster had two primary tasks: (1) to develop reference structural mod ...
http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=909038

34. Final Report of the National Construction Safety Team on the Collapses of the World Trade Center Towers. Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigations of the World Trade Center Disaster (NIST NCSTAR 1) ***DRAFT for Public Comments***
Series: National Construction Safety Team Act Reports (NIST NCSTAR)
Report Number: 1
Published: 9/1/2005
Authors: Sivaraj Shyam-Sunder, Richard George Gann, William L. Grosshandler, Jason D Averill, Richard W. Bukowski, Stephen A Cauffman, D D Evans, Frank W Gayle, John L Gross, James R. Lawson, Hai Sang Lew, Therese P McAllister, Harold E. Nelson, Fahim H Sadek
Abstract: This is the final report on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) econstruction of the collapses of the World Trade Center (WTC) towers, the results of an investigation conducted under the National Construction Safety Team Act. Th ...
http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=909236

35. Baseline Structural Performance and Aircraft Impact Damage Analysis.
Published: 10/19/2004
Authors: Fahim H Sadek, Emil Simiu, M A Riley, William P. Fritz, Hai Sang Lew
http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=101231

36. WTC Towers : Innovative Design Features and Structural Modeling.
Published: 10/10/2004
Authors: Hai Sang Lew, Fahim H Sadek
http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=101194

37. Sampling Errors in the Estimation of Peak Wind-Induced Internal Forces in Low-Rise Structures
Published: 2/1/2004
Authors: Fahim H Sadek, S M Diniz, M Kasperski, M Gioffre, Emil Simiu
Abstract: Peak values in time histories of wind effects may be obtained by using the entire information inherent in the time series of the wind effect, a method entailing the estimation of the probability distribution of the peak through the application of the ...
http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=860399

38. Achieving Safer and More Economical Buildings Through Database-Assisted, Reliability-Based Design for Wind
Published: 12/1/2003
Authors: Emil Simiu, Fahim H Sadek, T Whalen, S Jang, L L Lu, S M Diniz, A Grazini, Michael A Riley
Abstract: Following Irminger's 1894 aerodynamic tests, Flachsbart's 1932 boundary-layer wind tunnel experiments, and University of Western Ontario (UWO) 1970's tests, considerable progress has been achieved in low-rise building design for wind. Nevertheless, ...
http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=860417

39. Discussion of Definition of Wind Profiles in ASCE 7 by Yin Zhou and Ahsan Kareem
Published: 11/1/2003
Authors: Emil Simiu, Fahim H Sadek, Michael A Riley
Abstract: The discussion presents a critique of a paper published in the Journal of Structural Engineering, Aug. 2002, pp. 1082-1086. The main points of the discussion are: (1) the ASCE Standard definition of wind profiles is inconsistent with the ASCE definit ...
http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=860459

40. Experimental Testing of Roof to Wall Connections in Wood Frame Houses
Series: NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)
Report Number: 6938
Published: 4/1/2003
Authors: Michael A Riley, Fahim H Sadek
Abstract: The majority of residential construction in the United States is wood-frame construction. These buildings perform well under gravity loads, but considerable damage has been observed in such structures after significant earthquakes and major hurrican ...
http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=860470