TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Failure Analysis of the World Trade Center 5 Building
JO  - Journal of fire protection engineering
A1  - LaMalva, K. J.
A1  - Barnett, J. R.
A1  - Dusenberry, D. O.
SP  - 261
EP  - 274
VL  - 19
IS  - 4
N2  - This article describes an analysis of the structural collapse that occurred in World Trade Center (WTC) building 5 due to fire exposure on 11 September 2001. It is hypothesized that the steel column-tree assembly failed during the heating phase of the fire. A failure analysis is performed to determine the response of the portion of the building frame that collapsed during the fire ignited by falling debris from the WTC towers. Results from a finite element, thermal-stress model confirm the column-tree failure hypothesis. Based on this model, the authors conclude that the catastrophic, progressive structural collapse occurred ∼2 hours into the fire exposure.<p />
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SN  - 1042-3915
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1042391509105596
ID  - ref1
ER  -