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How building design changed after 9/11

  • Written by Shih-Ho Chao, Associate Professor of Structural Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Texas Arlington
imageThe new One World Trade Center building, made with high-performance concrete.John D. Morris, CC BY-SA

When buildings collapse killing hundreds – or thousands – of people, it’s a tragedy. It’s also an important engineering problem. The 1995 collapse of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and the World Trade...

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