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eomer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-08-09 10:03 AM
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78. Address my subtantive point.
The fatal flaw in Bazant's article is contained in that excerpt. It assumes that all the kinetic energy after a fall of one story (K) must be dissipated in the lower Part A and that none of it will be dissipated in the upper Part C. It assumes, in other words, that the upper Part C is a magic cube that defies the laws of physics.

The result of this flaw manifests itself in the disparity between the model's lack of crush-up and the visual evidence that crush-up did in fact occur.
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