Structural Engineering: RE: WTC Studies-Structural Aspects

Agree.
See :
http://wtc.nist.gov/oct05NCSTAR1-2index.htm
and the links at the bottom for the unbiased objective evaluation.
It's not a newspaper article, but it will have to do.

Regards,
Larry
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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Feather [mailto:PFeather@se-solutions.net]
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 12:27 PM
To: seaint@seaint.org
Subject: RE: WTC Studies-Structural Aspects

I too am a little disappointed with the articles and the tone. Leslie
Robertson is a world class engineer, the buildings (WTC) a true marvel
of modern engineering.

It is always easy to go back in hindsight to try and say "I would have
done this different", or "if only they had..."

This is one of the real differences between design and study; in design
you make decisions and create. Having done my share of unique problems
and large scale projects, cost is always an issue. Part of good
engineering design is to seek graceful, constructable, least cost
solutions. This is a long way from moral corruption. I guess if you
have not been there and done that, as we say, you cannot appreciate the
process or judge from experience.

Unfortunately or fortunately depending on your point of view, expecting
some lunatic crazed religious fanatics to go to such extremes to try and
destroy your work did not become a part of the design lexicon until
after this event. It certainly was not part of the collective
consciousness at the time Leslie designed the buildings; we still
thought only in terms of accidents.

I would expect a far more unbiased objective evaluation based on real
concepts.

Paul Feather PE, SE
pfeather@SE-Solutions.net
www.SE-Solutions.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Wright [mailto:chrisw@skypoint.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 8:32 AM
To: seaint@seaint.org
Subject: Re: WTC Studies-Structural Aspects

On Oct 13, 2007, at 3:14 AM, Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl wrote:

> Yesterday, I presented the results of our 5-year studies of
> structural aspects of the World Trade Center in Sibley Auditorium
> of UC Berkeley. Articles in the Oakland Tribune, Contra Costa
> Times, and San Jose Mercury News cover the main items of my
> presentation.

I don't know about California but Florida and Minnesota make
defamatory public pronouncements (such as accusations of 'moral
corruption') a violation of professional standards of conduct. The
proper place for Astaneh-Asl's criticism is a peer-reviewed journal
where the evidence can be presented and reviewed in detail. The
articles contain nothing substantive, only vague allegations of
negligence and misconduct with no basis for reaching objective
conclusions.

Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at
chrisw@skypoint.com | this distance" (last words of Gen.
.......................................| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania
1864)
http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw/

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