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Northwestern University does the math on the WTC collapse

From the Oct. 8 e-mail news bulletin of the engineering school at Northwestern University (Chicago).

September 20, 2001 Walter P. Murphy, Professor Zdenek P. Bazant, and graduate research assistant Yong Zhou have written a short article describing the collapse of the World Trade Center towers (both files are PDF documents, and require Adobe Acrobat reader):

http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/wtc/bazant_wtc.pdf
http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/wtc/bazant_wtc_figure.pdf

WGN-News September 11, 2001 Charles Dowding, professor of Civil Engineering, discusses the collapse of the World Trade Center towers. http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/showarticle.cfm?id=39

"Collapse of the World Trade Center Towers: Theory, Expectation and Reality" Wednesday, October 10, 3-4 p.m., L361 A panel of Civil Engineering experts will discuss the theories, expectations, and realities of the collapse of the World Trade Center towers, and the enormity of the resulting damage to the New York City infrastructure. The professors participating in the discussion will be Zdenek Bazant, Charles H. Dowding, Raymond J. Krizek, and David Schulz. (The presentation will be available via streaming video at http://www.iti.northwestern.edu/research/wtc/ and www.civil.northwestern.edu