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temperatures were near 500
o
C or below.” (NIST, 2005, p. 127, emphasis added.)
NIST contracted with Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. to conduct tests to
obtain information on the fire endurance of trusses like those in the WTC
towers… All four test specimens sustained the maximum design load for
approximately 2 hours without collapsing.” (NIST, 2005, p. 140)
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Kevin Ryan a site manager for one of Underwriters Laboratories divisions,
Environmental Health Laboratories (EHL) in South Bend, Indiana became concerned about the
WTC investigation. He e-mailed is concerns to Frank Gayle, director of the government
investigation. Gayle is deputy chief of the Metallurgy Division at NIST. Ryan sent copies of his
e-mail to David Ray Griffin, author of the New Pearl Harbor, and to Catherine Austin Fitts, who
is a member of the 911Truth.org board. He expressed the following to Gayle prior to NIST
completing their final report:
I'm aware of UL's attempts to help, including performing tests on models
of the floor assemblies. But the results of these tests appear to indicate that the
buildings should have easily withstood the thermal stress caused by pools of
burning jet fuel.... We know that the steel components were certified to ASTM
E119. The time temperature curves for this standard require the samples to be
exposed to temperatures around 2000F for several hours. And as we all agree, the
steel applied met those specifications. Additionally, I think we can all agree that
even un-fireproofed steel will not melt until reaching red-hot temperatures of
nearly 3000F. Why Dr. Brown would imply that 2000F would melt the high-grade
steel used in those buildings makes no sense at all....
Your comments suggest that the steel was probably exposed to
temperatures of only about 500F (250C), which is what one might expect from a
thermodynamic analysis of the situation.... However the summary of the new
NIST report seems to ignore your findings, as it suggests that these low
temperatures caused exposed bits of the building's steel core to “soften and
buckle”. Additionally this summary states that the perimeter columns softened,
yet your findings make clear that “most perimeter panels (157 of 160) saw no
temperature above 250C”. To soften steel for the purposes of forging, normally
temperatures need to be above 1100C. However, this new summary report
suggests that much lower temperatures were be able to not only soften the steel in
a matter of minutes, but lead to rapid structural collapse.
This story just does not add up. If steel from those buildings did soften or
melt, I'm sure we can all agree that this was certainly not due to jet fuel fires of
any kind, let alone the briefly burning fires in those towers.
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As can be seen in the e-mail from Ryan, Gayle estimated maximum fire temperatures of
250
o
C (500
o
F); this was 750
o
C ( 1330
o
F) lower than what the NIST report eventually stated. In
fact, NIST was able to examine 16 of the perimeter columns; they found and reported that, “only
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