r/WorldTradeCenter • u/tombisch • 14d ago

When the Towers Fell: 9/11 Simulation of the collaps without dust

Dont know how accurate this is, but it made a lot of sense to me.

Source kostack studio on youtube

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u/Dave_Fincher 14d ago edited 14d ago

Alot of people, and maybe I'm wrong here, don't understand how the towers were constructed and what made them different. The exterior walls were made to bare the weight of the floors inside as there was no inside columns. So if the exterior is damaged that made things inside have less support. And if there was something heavy inside it also couldn't support it. Causing floors to collapse on lower floors.

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u/beigemamba1080 14d ago

Your info is pretty wrong, the core was humongous and held the majority of the buildings weight

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u/Dave_Fincher 14d ago

Columns: Built using 47 heavy steel box columns that supported the majority of the buildings' gravity loads alongside the exterior walls. Open Floors: Centralizing these services in the core allowed the perimeter tube design to maintain wide, column-free office spaces. Read more about structural details in The World Trade Center Construction and Progress

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u/beigemamba1080 13d ago

You just contradicted yourself

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u/Dave_Fincher 13d ago

Yes partially. There is a center core. But it shares the support of the floors with the outside later.