Can’t be, the 9-11 conspiracy nutballs told us that fire can’t affect steel beams.

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So a major fire under a bridge near Cincinnati has led to the bridge being closed.

 

The fire “warped a few of its steel beams” and damaged concrete forcing the bridge to be closed for repairs.

It looks like arson because of the size of the fire..it included mulch and plastic playground equipment.

But we all know that a fire, even a jet fuel fire, can’t melt or even weaken steel.

Must have been a “special” fire or something…

 

6 thoughts on “Can’t be, the 9-11 conspiracy nutballs told us that fire can’t affect steel beams.”

  1. Says the guy who is trying to make a living doing affiliate links. Pfft. You’re a moron. Probably a Judeo Christian. Israel first always.

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      And yes, a proud Judeo Christian.

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  2. I talked to an architect about what happened to the WTC. The structural design called for cables tensioned diagonally at each floor because without them the skin of the structure would bulge and fail. The fire didn’t weaken the beams as much as it de-tempered the steel cables. The cables parted. The structure bulged. The structure above the bulge fell into the hole created by the bulge, snapping the cables in the structure below it on the way down. That’s why it looked like a demolition. Truthfully, if that hadn’t happened the building would have fallen over and the death toll would have been MUCH higher.

  3. I, for one, never said that fire had no effect on steel beams.

    Plausible temperatures of 1600F (barely glowing dull red) reduce the Young’s modulus to about 10% of what it is at room temperature. That reduces the compressive load required to buckle or “cripple” a beam by 90%. Only a couple of sid-by-side beams would need to sag before it started a chain-reaction

  4. And we all know that EVERY single beam and cable in that building was strength tested and legit and passed EVERY engineering test possible…..Who told me this? Why no one in particular; but ya gots to know that the union boss on that job had a couple of kids that needed to go through college and hey it was only a couple of dud beams…..

  5. Not rocket science.
    Fire doesn’t have to melt the steel to fail, just weaken it until the weight from above is too much.
    That’s what an architect told me 35 years ago.

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