Re: 9/11 may be CONSPIRACY! - BBC anchor!!!!

"O O" <sanoli@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> The columns were filled with concrete.

I am afraid you are incorrect.   Watch this and read some construction
books.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4334991174539603857
    18:00 min

Concrete was in the floor pans, which were anchored to the core
columns and the outer walls.  (11:45 in film)

> Without the concrete, they could sway to the point of buckling.

Swaying has nothing to do with individual beams.... it's how they are
assembled that compensates for potential motion energy.

They were not filled with concrete.  Construction grade steel is faaar
stronger than you apparently have an understanding of.  The shapes
of the beams also provide additional strength.  Wind shear and stress
were handled predominantly by the steel beams in the outer wall and
the flooring between the out wall and the core columns.


> I get my knowledge of the nature of materials from direct experience

Then you should know that the steel itself serves as a major heat-sink
by transferring (conducting) heat AWAY from the affected areas...
concrete would inhibit this transference.

> not from Hollywood movies.

If you think construction grade steel is going to bend, you definitely
watch to many movies.