blueonblue
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Interesting points. I have always assumed, wrongly perhaps that shear studs offer very little support to vertical loads, but are there to resist horizontal movement.
The time delay floor to floor was only until the critical load was reached, after that it went down at a gravitational lick...
Now, what is your actual theory of how it collapsed, given that mine is nonsense, and bearing in mind of course that it did, actually collapse.
But your nonsense is based on a beam being displaced horizontal to allow the floor to drop, tied in both sides of the beam the force could have effected only one side of the floor showing as a partial collapse and warping to the outer wall, not seen on the footage, nor was ANY time delay because that would show as acceleration instead of zero to free-fall.
80 beams tied in with cross beams and 4000 shear studs locking off horizontal movement can not all give up the ghost at the exact same moment, yet you want to give credence to a spread out office furniture fire produced enough heat to have everything fail structurally at the exact same instant ?.
It was a controlled demolition