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Global Structural Analysis of the Response of the World Trade Center Towers to Impact Damage and Fire. Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster (NIST NCSTAR 1-6D) ***DRAFT for Public Comments***

September 1, 2005
Author(s)
Mehdi S. Zarghamee, Yasuo Kitane, Omer O. Erbay, Therese P. McAllister, John L. Gross
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc. (SGH) developed global models of the World Trade Center (WTC) towers using finite elements to gain an understanding of the roles of the aircraft impact damage and the subsequent fires in the WTC towers with respect to

Structural Fire Response and Probable Collapse Sequence of the World Trade Center Towers. Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster (NIST NCSTAR 1-6) ***DRAFT for Public Comments***

September 1, 2005
Author(s)
John L. Gross, Therese P. McAllister
One of the four main objectives of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) investigation of the collapse of the World Trade Center (WTC) towers was to determine why and how the two towers collapsed. Events that played a significant role

The Interdependent Networked Community Resilience Modeling Environment (IN-CORE): Science, Structure and Examples

January 1, 2001
Author(s)
John van de Lindt, Daniel Cox, Paolo Gardoni, Jong Lee, Jamie Padgett, Therese P. McAllister, Andre Barbosa, Harvey Cutler, Shannon van Zandt
ABSTRACT: Community resilience is the ability of a community to plan for, withstand, and recover from a natural hazard such as an earthquake or flood. Advancing community (or urban) resilience requires: (1) an understanding of how the physical
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