TIL Thousands of engineers uncovered massive fraud in the government's official 9/11 report on the collapse of WTC 7 — specifically the omission of web-to-flange stiffeners on girder A2001.

152  2015-11-06 by 12-23-1913

Technical Statement:

NIST maintains that WTC 7 collapsed due to fire acting upon the 13th floor A2001 girder between columns 79 and 44 and the beams framing into it from the east. They said that the beams expanded by 5.5” (revised in June 2012 to 6.25”), broke the girder erection bolts, and pushed this girder off its column 79 seat. This girder fell to floor 12, which then precipitated a cascade of floor failures from floor 12 down to floor 5, and column 79 then became unsupported laterally, causing it to buckle. It is then said that column 79's buckling caused the upper floors to cascade down, which started a chain reaction — a north-to-south then east-to-west horizontal, progressive collapse — with a global exterior collapse that was captured on the videos.

The first omission concerns flange-to-web stiffeners on the south end of the girder (A2001). [See drawing 9114]

These omitted stiffeners would prevent the girder flange from folding when the girder web moved beyond the seat, requiring twice the possible expansion of the beams framing into the girder from the east to move the girder far enough to the west for it to fall off its seat.

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11  12-23-1913 2015-11-06

More sources:

The professionals who uncovered the fraud in the NIST reports appeared on C-SPAN last August (2014) to discuss the evidence of 9/11 -- it is now the most popular C-SPAN broadcast: http://www.c-span.org/video/?320748-5/washington-journal-architects-engineers-911-truth — 400,000 views

Some of the members:

Steven Dusterwald, S.E. - Structural Engineer: https://youtu.be/I7oti6KGEf4

  • Mr. Dusterwald presents contradictory evidence between the NIST model and the actual sequence of failures within all the WTC Buildings.

David Topete, MSCE, S.E., Structural Engineer: https://youtu.be/v9WB1A9j8f8

  • Mr. Topete discusses how WTC Building 7's column 79's failure could not have caused the symmetrical and simultaneous collapse into it's own footprint.

Casey Pfeiffer, S.E. – Structural Engineer: https://youtu.be/V4y6cweaegI

  • Mr. Pfeiffer provides a in-depth look at what actually happened to the top portions of the WTC towers prior to collapse and how WTC 7 could not have experienced simultaneous connector failure without the use of controlled demolition devices.

Kamal Obeid, C.E., S.E. – Civil/Structural Engineer: https://youtu.be/3WCcSHpvAJ8

  • Mr. Obeid, a 30-year structural engineer explains how NIST's analysis actually disproves it's own theories on how WTC Building 7 collapsed, thereby confirming the use of controlled demolition.

Ron Brookman S.E., Structural Engineer: https://youtu.be/TM_l_4sJ-sY

  • Mr. Brookman discusses his direct inquiries with President Obama and NIST on NIST's responsibility to find the cause of the collapse of WTC Building 7 and their responses.

They have been attempting to expose the fraud in the NIST reports, along with thousands of other professionals. Here are a few:

Bob Bowman PhD, Lt. Colonel (ret.):

https://youtu.be/CROB5p-1GjE

  • The former head of the Star Wars program under President Ford & Carter, has multiple engineering degrees and agrees that NIST is conducting a massive coverup. (RIP)

Lynn Margulis PhD:

https://youtu.be/O0fkDmi78Og

  • 1999 Presidential Medal of Science award winner and Carl Sagan's first wife, Lynn Margulis, provides crucial rules and elements within an investigative scientific analysis to procure an accepted hypotheses vs. what's depicted in the NIST report. (RIP)

Rudy Dent, 9/11 survivor and former Fire Marshall:

https://youtu.be/nQrpLp-X0ws

  • 32 year veteran of NYC fire department and the NYPD Rudy Dent, speaks about his incredible first hand experience of the lies surrounding WTC 7 and gives his professional opinion on the destruction of the buildings with his experience as a Fire Marshall.

Another prominent member from this group is:

Richard Humenn P.E. - WTC Chief Electrical Design Engineer: https://youtu.be/gJy7lhVK2xE

  • Mr. Humenn gives us quite a unique perspective inside the elevator shafts in the twin towers and how access to the core columns could have been gained.

Click here for their series of twenty-five provable points which clearly demonstrate that the reports produced by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on the destruction of the World Trade Center (WTC) were unscientific and fraudulent. Therefore NIST itself –including its lead authors, Shyam Sunder and John Gross--should be investigated.

Did you know? NIST did not follow standard fire investigation protocol:

Erik Lawyer – Firefighter: https://youtu.be/KsbbpUA9FHM

  • Mr. Lawyer presents investigative directives from the National Fire Protection Standards Manual that were never followed by NIST or FEMA for the fires they claim caused all 3 WTC Buildings to collapse.

Building 7 collapsed at 5:21 pm on 9-11-2001 — it was the first and only steel skyscraper in world history to completely collapse because of fire.

Danny Jowenko - Demolition Expert: https://youtu.be/0f4w8iJmn08

  • Mr. Jowenko concludes that WTC 7 had to have been a controlled demolition without a doubt. (RIP)

9/11 Survivor Barry Jennings Uncut Interviews (WABC-TV, 2001, LC 2007): https://youtu.be/OmeY2vJ6ZoA

  • Barry talks about the explosions in Building 7 and his escape from it after tying to enter the office of emergency management area on the 23rd floor. (RIP)

Credit: /u/DishonestCartooNIST

7  slim_ironwood 2015-11-06

Killer material. WTC 7 remains the real smoking gun of 9/11, and it's crazy some people still believe office fires toppled it. The number seems to be getting smaller, though.

2  12-23-1913 2015-11-06

Good news, the truth is winning: At the 2015 NCSEA Structural Engineering Summit on Oct 1st, Two-Dozen Structural Engineers Signed a Petition Demanding Answers for All 3 Tower Collapses

6  HangOn2UrEgo 2015-11-06

Debunkers thought the WTC 7 NIST report would fix everything, but it only gave truthers material to poke holes in for years XD

4  12-23-1913 2015-11-06

It was released in 2008 -- they probably hoped most would have forgotten about it by then. Luckily David Chandler was tuned in and exposed free fall.

-1  76one 2015-11-06

You post nothing but 9/11 stuff and you just learned this NOW? Something doesn't smell right here...

7  slim_ironwood 2015-11-06

Killer material. WTC 7 remains the real smoking gun of 9/11, and it's crazy some people still believe office fires toppled it. The number seems to be getting smaller, though.