Rybczynski, Witold.

What We Learned About Tall Buildings from the World Trade Center.... / Witold Rybczynski. - Discover, 2002. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2003. Article 79. Science, 1522-3264; .

Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2003. Originally Published: What We Learned About Tall Buildings from the World Trade Center..., Oct. 2002; pp. 68-75.

"The first investigative report of the World Trade Center collapse, by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the American Society of Civil Engineers, was released last May [2002]. Disappointingly, the six-month inquiry was inconclusive." (DISCOVER) This article examines what structural engineers have learned about construction of high-rises since the collapse of the World Trade Center towers.

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Architectural design.
Building failures.
Buildings--Protection.
Buildings--Safety measures.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001)
Skyscrapers.
Structural design.
Structural engineering.
Terrorism--United States.


World Trade Center (New York, N.Y.)

AC1.S5

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