stefan grossmann www.gallerize.

com may 16, 2005 the "truss theory" for the collapse of the twin towers refuted 9-11 science report reference is made to the data folders: 1. truss theory presentation 2. wtc core segmentation slide show 1. the trusses (pre-assembled floor panels) upon assembly were initially numerous separate elements per floor. however, they were additionally interwoven all together with cross-woven steel. [see photo on the whilimena site] thus, if considered as an overall floor board, each truss supported its neighbor truss. each floor board therefore had high cross-stability. the failure of individual attachments of the separate floor panels would not be sufficient to let the entire floor board collapse. 2. if an entire floor board did collapse then this would have the regular effect of a truss collapse but on a large scale. in other words, such an event would have pulled the outer walls inwards into the building in a very considerable way. police photos that were released in a public nist briefing on april 5, 2005 actually show such beginning pull-in at one or two high floors approximately 2 minutes before collapse with an effect of about 10 inches inwards pull. given this well-documented effect, it is completely inexplicable why at collapse the outer wall elements exploded with very high acceleration rates outwards, spraying like volcanic debris for 3000 meters (over one and a half miles) according to an insurance industry report and the numerous

collapse videos. further, videos with sound tracks of the collapses prove that there was no regular rhythmic pounding (knocking) noise but the continuous roar like of a surf or breaking ocean wave, i.e. the opposite of the expected "pancakeing" sound. 3. the floors were blocked from falling from top to bottom because at certain floors, massive steel-frame construction interrupted the twin towers' "tube and truss" construction. an anonymous engineer using the web name "nerdcities" provides the following information as to this point: it turns out that 18 floors have heavy steel beams instead of trusses. consider the following quote from engineering news-record, january 1, 1970. on the 41st and 42nd floors, both towers will house mechanical equipment. to accommodate the heavy loads, the floors are designed as structural steel frame slabs. all other floors from the ninth to the top (except for 75 and 76, which will also carry mechanical equipment) have typical truss floor joists and steel decking. typical office floors have 4-in. thick slabs of composite construction using top chord knuckles of the joists (trusses), which extend into the slab, as shear connectors. on mechanical floors, composite action is provided by welded stud shear connectors. so the first 8 + 6 = 14 stories, and the 41st, 42nd, 75th and 76th floors, used solid steel beams in place of trusses. also, the top stories had special steel reinforcing diagonals called outrigger trusses. south tower was hit around the 80th and 81st floor, north tower around the 92nd floor. floors pancakeing from the points of impact were blocked by a massive steel cage of i-beams at the 75th and 76th floor. there is no explanation why the alleged pancakeing would have broken through the steel cage barriers at the 75th and 76th floors and at the 41st and 42nd floors with the uniform collapse speed, i.e. nearly the speed of free fall. 4. there is no viable explanation for the uniform, and high, collapse speed in the first place, nor for the direct vertical direction of collapse. a buckling tower will always twist and fall sideways and will not be crushed along its vertical axis of strength. if the vertical strength elements - the core columns - had been crushed vertically they would look like a coca cola can after you step on it. but that did not happen.

5. the subject of a different report (9-11 science report appendix b, wtc fire temperature report) is that approximately 10 minutes after each impact the kerosene was used up and - with or without kerosene - there were no raging fire infernos in the towers that could have weakened steel. despite this, steel was not only weakened but even melted in huge amounts that formed pools of molten steel in the basements of wtc1, 2 and 7 for weeks after the collapses. further, the resulting nano-dust clouds indicate powerful explosive possible including small nuclear devices such at the april 19, 1995 oklahoma city bombing. (see appendices a and b of the 9-11 science report and the report itself.) 6. heavy core columns weighing tens or even hundreds of tons exploded like shrapnel outward which is impossible just as a result of lightweight floor trusses collapsing. 7. neither the outer tube nor the core twisted (torqued) as predicted by the basic model of professor kausel. they did not keel over but sagged vertically into their footprints like an inflatable gas tank upon being deflated. accordingly, approximately 97% of all core columns that are documented in visual media (after the destruction of the steel itself by the government) are straight, not bent, and their ends show clean sharp cuts, like reported by eric hufschmid for the segmenting technology of the company, controlled demolition, inc. that is inexplicable for a twisting from structural failure. 8. neither the outer tube nor the cure buckled. the outer wall elements of the tube blasted outwards with high acceleration. the numerous documented core columns from ground zero are to 97% straight, not bent, and their ends show clean sharp cuts, [see photo on the whilimena site] like reported by eric hufschmid for the segmenting technology of the company, controlled demolition, inc. that is inexplicable for a buckling from structural failure, as is the highly energetic outbound trajectory of many core columns. 9. the "truss theory" is entirely unsuited for the collapse of wtc7. tower 7 collapsed around 5:20 p.m. on the afternoon of 9-11-1. no plane hit tower 7, a ...[47 story] highrise and the third-highest building of the wtc. the fires were only two locally limited office fires on the north side of two lower floors. building 7 was "pulled" after a phone conversation between larry silverstein and the fire department commander. this is a trade term for a controlled demolition. the collapse of building 7 has all signature marks of a controlled demolition, such as: rapid and uniform fall, vertical drop into its footprint, top-down collapse with roof sagging, large light dust clouds, collapse of the outer walls inwards over the rubble of floors.

10. apart from the inward collapse of the floors, the collapses of both twin towers share all essential signature marks with the controlled demolition of tower 7. the "truss theory" fails to conceptualize let alone explain the collapse of the twin towers. the obvious and evident explanation is that the twin towers were bombed in the largest controlled demolition in history. for evidence about the explosions themselves see 9-11 science report appendix a.