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In reply to the discussion: The Great Thermite Debate... [View all]eomer
(3,845 posts)and change them and that the predictions of the model still stand? There's no need to rerun the model and see?
Meanwhile NIST spent several pages describing these heat factors in the alternative models. Doesn't that make it pretty obvious they thought the heat factors were an important part of the model?
And, by the way, I'm pretty sure one of the differences between the collapsing "more severe" model and the non-collapsing "middle" model was exactly this heat exposure assumption.
And, finally, NIST even refers to weakening of columns due to heat exposure in that short explanation of the collapse, so they obviously think it was an important enough contributing factor to call it out.
Sorry, you can't seriously be proposing that you can change those factors in the model and still rely on the results.