Looking at the FEMA and NIST
investigations themselves, we see that
there are problems:
Just a few examples:
The FEMA investigation found evidence of a eutectic reaction in some of the steel members: the upshot: 8 inch steel columns were vaporized to razor sharp thickness. There was no follow-up investigation.
NIST’s scenario suggests that the aircraft collision destroyed several floors of each of the twin towers, creating an upper and lower block, and that the smaller upper block out crushed the larger lower block.
NIST only simulated the collapse of the upper stories of the twin towers; to the point of what they call being “poised for collapse,”
They only assumed, but never proved, that the upper block crushed the lower block. No momentum transfer analysis of the upper block into the lower block was provided.
It turns out in fact, that a careful video analysis of the collapsing upper floors show that there was no "upper block": it disintegrated prior to its collapse onto the lower block
NIST admits “ we are unable to provide a full explanation of the total collapse.”
( NIST Response to Scholars for 911 Truth and Justice’s Request For Correction)
According to The NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) 921 Guide for Fire and Explosion investigation, looking for explosives residues is the standard procedure for fire and explosion investigations, yet NIST did not look for any such residues.
The engineering community (outside A&E911truth.org) has also raised questions about the results of the NIST WTC investigation:
James Quintiere, Ph.D., one of the world’s leading fire science researchers and safety engineers, and former Chief of the Fire Science Division at NIST, has called for an independent review of NIST’s investigation.
The popular British construction industry
magazine New Civil Engineer International (NCEI) notes:
Controversy
still surrounds the exact collapse mechanism of the
Regarding
the analysis used to bring the towers to the point of being “poised for
collapse,” NCEI notes: “NIST had
obviously devoted enormous resources to the development of the impact and fire
models…The software used has been pushed to new limits, and there have been a
lot of simplifications, extrapolations and judgment calls.” The same article
notes NIST is “refusing to show computer visualizations of the collapse of the
Twin Towers despite calls from leading structural and fire engineers…Visualizations
of collapse mechanisms are routinely used to validate the type of finite
element analysis model used by the investigators.”