Interview with Prof. Charles Clifton, who published an independent study on 9/11

There's been an excellent interview published on Feb. 3rd, 2014 of Dr. Charles Clifton, associate professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Auckland (New Zealand). Dr. Clifton published an independent analysis of the tower collapses in September of 2001.







The interview, published by the UNDICISETTEMBRE ("11 September") blog here , is described by author Hammer as follows:

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The collapse of the Twin Towers and of Building 7 at the World Trade Center is one of the most controversial aspects of the events of 9/11. Proponents of conspiracy theories often back their arguments with claims that are apparently precise and scientific but are actually based on superficial and often incorrect knowledge. To clear the field of these misconceptions, Undicisettembre has interviewed Charles Clifton, associate professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Auckland (New Zealand), who published an independent study on the collapse of the Twin Towers. As you can read below, Clifton's professional opinion dispels all of the doubts raised by conspiracy theorists regarding the three collapses and makes it very clear that for the experts there is no mystery at all. We wish to thank Charles Clifton for his kindness and for making himself available for our questions.

Please note that Dr. Zdenek Bazant of Northwestern University is not mentioned even once in the interview. Also note that Dr. Clifton is an independent scientist, is not an American, and is not employed by NIST. Here is a snippet of the interview, regarding the collapse of WTC 7:

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The first theory was that the fires in the substation beneath the core weakened the core and triggered the collapse but the NIST report states that didn’t happen, based on the observed amount and intensity of smoke released from the base of the building during the interval those fires were burning. However, computer simulations with the core intact don’t generate the final observed collapse sequence. I think the NIST report is wrong in this regard and that those substation fires did cause a progressive failure in the core, so that when the gravity system failed on the north east side and put more load suddenly into the core, it gave way at the lower levels.

Please feel free to comment. However, this thread is specifically about Dr. Charles Clifton of New Zealand. There are many threads already existing about NIST and Dr. Bazant, and I beseech the mods to feel free to re-direct any off-topic conversations in this thread to a better location).

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