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- Title
Impact of the Boeing 767 Aircraft into the World Trade Center.
- Authors
Karim, Mohammed R.; Fatt, Michelle S. Hoo
- Abstract
A numerical simulation of the aircraft impact into the exterior columns of the World Trade Center (WTC) was done using LS-DYNA. For simplification, the fuselage was modeled as a thin-walled cylinder, the wings were modeled as box beams with a fuel pocket, and the engines were represented as rigid cylinders. The exterior columns of the WTC were represented as box beams. Actual masses, material properties and dimensions of the Boeing 767 aircraft and the exterior columns of the WTC were used in this analysis. It was found that about 46% of the initial kinetic energy of the aircraft was used to damage columns. The minimum impact velocity of the aircraft to just penetrate the exterior columns would be 130 m/s. It was also found that a Boeing 767 traveling at top speed would not penetrate exterior columns of the WTC if the columns were thicker than 20 mm.
- Subjects
ENGINEERING; STRUCTURAL analysis (Engineering); STRUCTURAL dynamics; BOEING 767 (Jet transport); OFFICE buildings; WORLD Trade Center (New York, N.Y. : 1970-2001)
- Publication
Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 2005, Vol 131, Issue 10, p1066
- ISSN
0733-9399
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9399(2005)131:10(1066)