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If Bob had not committed a well-deserved suicide-by-mod he would no doubt be introducing this, but he can't so here it is. The latest fund-raising effort by Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth but this time it isn't just going to fund the next fundraising effort.
Press release from the AE911T web site:
WTC 7 Evaluation
Personally, I think it is great that after 9 years AE911T is finally spending some of the millions of dollars it has raised to do some actual research. This would seem to answer one of my frequent criticisms of the organization. Interesting though that in spite of the claims we have seen for years now that AE911T has "thousands of experts" they had to farm this one out to a non-petition signer in far-off Alaska.
There are some things in the above statement and elsewhere on the web site that raise an eyebrow, but I'll leave the floor open for others to comment for now. Maybe the Truth Squad can do better on this topic than they did on the Flight 175 Was Not a Commercial Aircraft thread.
Press release from the AE911T web site:
Earlier this year, AE911Truth partnered with Dr. J. Leroy Hulsey, an engineering professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), to undertake a study, using Finite Element Modeling, of World Trade Center Building 7’s collapse. Dr. Hulsey is the chair of UAF’s Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and brings decades of experience in failure analysis and modeling of structures.
In May, Dr. Hulsey and his team of Ph.D. research assistants began a two-year process of virtually reconstructing WTC 7 — using the software programs SAP 2000 and Abaqus — and evaluating the range of possible causes of WTC 7’s collapse. By working in two separate programs, Dr. Hulsey and his team are able to crosscheck the results of the models against one another, thereby ensuring that they are error-free, accurate representations of WTC 7.
With the models now partly developed, Dr. Hulsey and his team have begun to analyze how the building responds to various conditions. Eventually they will examine the fire-based scenario put forward by NIST, which involves the thermal expansion of long-span beams near WTC 7’s column 79.
Based on his analysis, Dr. Hulsey will evaluate the probability of each hypothetical scenario being the cause of the collapse — and rule out scenarios that could not have resulted in collapse. Once the study is completed, Dr. Hulsey will submit his findings to major peer-reviewed engineering journals.
Transparency and Public Participation
Unlike NIST, which has refused to release all of its modeling data based on the untenable excuse that doing so “might jeopardize public safety,” UAF and AE911Truth will make this study completely open and transparent.
Soon, we will begin posting the process on the website WTC7Evaluation.org, where members of the architecture and engineering communities, as well as the general public, can follow and scrutinize the research as it is being conducted.
Today, we’re giving you a sneak peek by inviting you to be the first to watch the official WTC 7 Evaluation Introduction Video. This video will be featured at the top of the forthcoming website WTC7Evaluation.org to introduce visitors to Dr. Hulsey and the goals of the UAF study.
By making the study open and transparent throughout the entire process, we expect it to attract widespread attention from the engineering community and the broader public, while also enabling interested observers to provide input and feedback. To that end, we enthusiastically invite you to register to become a participant in the study. Dr. Hulsey and the review committee vetting his research greatly welcome your help.
This Is a Turning Point
We at AE911Truth believe the UAF study will be a turning point in how the destruction of WTC 7 is viewed — both within the engineering community and by the general public.
Not only will the UAF study add credible, cutting-edge research to the existing body of evidence and analysis regarding the destruction of WTC 7, it will also generate an unprecedented level of awareness and willingness to look seriously at how this building was destroyed.
WTC 7 Evaluation
Personally, I think it is great that after 9 years AE911T is finally spending some of the millions of dollars it has raised to do some actual research. This would seem to answer one of my frequent criticisms of the organization. Interesting though that in spite of the claims we have seen for years now that AE911T has "thousands of experts" they had to farm this one out to a non-petition signer in far-off Alaska.
There are some things in the above statement and elsewhere on the web site that raise an eyebrow, but I'll leave the floor open for others to comment for now. Maybe the Truth Squad can do better on this topic than they did on the Flight 175 Was Not a Commercial Aircraft thread.