unless… it was already past the side plate before it heated up enough.
Hulsey says the column moved east. NIST agrees with this, so if the column moved 2 inches east while the beams were pushing west, it’s maybe possible the first edge was past the side plate. and if column 44 moved north, as Hulsey says it did that would pull the girder a bit further from the side plate. Quan (or Xaio?) were saying something about huge axial tension when things expand… I don’t know if beams would produce huge tensions…
I think the point is. We (the general public) don’t know if NIST is accurate because we don’t have their data ... Read even more
