sethnintendo said:
Okay well what I pulled from the Northwestern document why it didn't topple over was because "Before disappearing from view, the upper part of the South just trying to think about in layman's term and can't really understand it because I don't know what elastoplastic shear resistance is or how they would even calculate that. Now check it out on video at 20 secs in: |
So your arguement is... a building can't collapse like that, because you don't understand the sceince behind it.
If someone handed me an academic paper on Nuclear Fision, i'm pretty sure i probably wouldn't understand it... but I'm not going to say Nuclear power is a conspiracy.
Elastroplastic Shear Restistance is EXACTLY what it sounds like.
The shear restistance of Elastroplastics...
In this case Elastroplastic Steel.
As for how you would test this. Math formula, from previous stress testing of mateirals and practical tests. Which you know... is pretty common.
Before you build a building, espiecally a giant freaking skyscraper you need to test how the building would react to tons of different situations such as, planes running into it and earthquakes.
If you CAN'T gurantee it will implode on itself rather then tip over... you don't get to build... cause you know, otherwise your basically going to play city dominoes.