Reconstruction of the Fires in the WTC Towers: Findings and Issues.
Reconstruction of the Fires in the WTC Towers: Findings
and Issues.
(80 K)
Gann, R. G.
Project 5;
National Construction Safety Team Advisory Committee
Meeting. Construction Safety Investigations. October
19, 2004, Gaithersburg, MD, 8 pp, 2004.
Keywords:
World Trade Center; reconstruction; temperature; thermal
radiation; smoke fields; human behavior; occupants;
responders; structural stability
Abstract:
Reconstruct, with assessed uncertainty limits, the
time-evolving temperature, thermal radiation, and smoke
fields in World Trade Center 1, 2, and 7 for use in
evaluating the behavior and fate of occupants and
responders and the structural performance of the
buildings
Building and Fire Research Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899