Fireproofing is a critical fire safety feature of steel high-rise structures because steel begins to elongate between approximately 800°F and 1,000°F, temperatures easily reached by normal residential and commercial contents fires.
The jet fuel would have burnt off quick and was gone by the time of collapse. It did have the effect of setting everything on fire at once, normal fires aren't like that.
Also, the towers came down in their own footprint
Check out the pictures I posted Building 6 would have been in touched if the debris was limited to the Tower's foot print.
You can see the outside columns of the Tower laying on the destroyed WT6 then a giant crater. Like Godzilla stepped on it.
I'm not arguing that the steel wasn't weakened... My point was that building 7 was a controlled demolition... The edit stated that the structure would definitely be damaged by the heat of the jet fuel... Also from all the videos I've seen, the twin towers came straight down... If you have that much debris coming straight down, of course it's going to push things outward... it doesn't change the fact that the towers came straight down...
It may? It does. How do think a blacksmith bends and shape metal
Did you read the Edit I posted??? Cheers...
I did see it, But 800°C is way above the danger zone. This is why steel in buildings is always coated with a fire resistant material.
Structural steel will soften at 425°C an at around 650°C, the steel will lose half of its strength
https://www.fireengineering.com/fire-prevention-protection/fireproofing-at-the-wtc-towers/#gref
The jet fuel would have burnt off quick and was gone by the time of collapse. It did have the effect of setting everything on fire at once, normal fires aren't like that.
Check out the pictures I posted Building 6 would have been in touched if the debris was limited to the Tower's foot print.
You can see the outside columns of the Tower laying on the destroyed WT6 then a giant crater. Like Godzilla stepped on it.
Cheers
I'm not arguing that the steel wasn't weakened... My point was that building 7 was a controlled demolition... The edit stated that the structure would definitely be damaged by the heat of the jet fuel... Also from all the videos I've seen, the twin towers came straight down... If you have that much debris coming straight down, of course it's going to push things outward... it doesn't change the fact that the towers came straight down...
What direction should we have expected them to fall?
What are the other options other than straight down.