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Thomas W. Eagar

Thomas Eagar

MIT professor of materials engineering

Co-author of the December 2001 JOM paper on WTC collapse mechanics. Later criticised demolition arguments as using a reverse scientific method.

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EVD-402scientific paper

Eagar & Musso 2001: WTC fires did not melt steel; floor-truss connections were the weak point

Thomas W. Eagar & Christopher Musso — Why Did the World Trade Center Collapse? Science, Engineering, and Speculation (JOM, Dec 2001) · 2001-12-01

In December 2001 MIT materials engineers published that WTC fires were not hot enough to melt steel and that weakened floor-truss connections were the likely weak point.

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