Wow, very high shcoolish, nice work gentleman. If someone contests your theories, start namecalling and denigrate their educational background. Very, oh, 13 year old of you. Everyone brought some good arguements, but the mudslinging does not add to your credibility, it illustrates your emotional attachment to your views.
I'll review the website you seem so bent on me seeing and chime back in. However, as you were. Let the "jesus" and
, and the pig in the mud and jackass statements continue. As I stated, I don't mind and it's good reading...and laughs. BTW, I conduct failure analysis for a living, it's my bread and butter. I'm not specifically in the metals arena, but there is some overlap on the on the physics principles when it comes to destructive failure.
Have fun with it since it seems to entertain you guys, it's obviously keeping one of you a little OCD over the matter.
But I won't name names.
Calm down a bit, this is an internet forum, you get what you pay for. If you get to that emotional outburst place, walk away for a bit, let it go, have a cigarette, beer or whatever. It's really not that important to me. Not enough for me to start calling you names because we disagree on something.
Controlled building demolition does not want to move any support component laterally.
Yes they do. This is what starts the collapse in the center of these demolitions. The central core members get sheared (not really, they get cut by explosive pressure, but I digress) so they will fall and start tearing the structure apart simply by it falling under it's own weight. Simply blasting a section out parallel with your floor does not provide you with the means to make it fall where you want it, the angles, and timing of the blasts do this. It's not "only" about blast timing in controlled demolitions. It's the location AND orientation of the cut. Not all the columns get this angle setup, but some do.
I made no mention as to the title or credibility of the image. I've found the same image under several different names. Lets focus on the image, not the source or the title. I was specifically discussing the angled cut with the notable slag on it. Anyone of you ever run a cutting torch? If you have, you know that is metal slag of some sort. If you haven't, then so be it, I have, and that's what slag looks like fellas. It likely could form slag on the outside while the focus of the blast is towards the metal itself. That's the point. They use material that looks like angle iron for the blasting material. They call it a chevron shape so the charge focuses inward. Think of angle iron laying with the two legs making contact with the steel surface and the corner up off the surface. It makes a triangle of dead space between the steel and the angle iron.
Sorry about the dog issue. Thought they were staffed constantly. This is how it was reported (or I recalled it) from the govy access version I saw. Different producers, 9/11 specific. Still have not found it again. Got busy with home projects, so this thread has been neglected and I have not done the research you so desperately want me to see.
