Researchers spent months meticulously recreating the long concrete floors supported by steel beams commonly found in high-rise office buildings, only to set the structures ablaze. These experiments ...

RESTON, Va. --The World Trade Center towers would likely not have collapsed if the spray-on fireproofing had not been dislodged by the impact of the aircraft, concludes a report issued today by the ...

The impact of two passenger jets and the raging fires they ignited were not enough to bring down the World Trade Center towers, according to a comprehensive study of the towers’ collapse released ...

Enhanced safety measures are being made for structures that are exposed to liquefied natural gas (LNG) fire. Dr. Filippo Gavelli from Blue Engineering and Consulting Company (BLUE) and Dr. Qingsheng ...

Engineers and technicians at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) spent months meticulously recreating the long concrete floors supported by steel beams commonly found in ...