The Engineering Division is sponsoring a Special Seminar:
The World Trade Center - A Memorial and the Release of Results of a 5-Year Structural Engineering Investigation
Presented by Dr. Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl, P.D., P.E.
One week after the 9/11/2001 tragedy, Professor Astaneh started reconnaissance and investigation of the collapsed World Trade Center towers in New York supported by the National Science Foundation. Later, in May of 2002, he testified before the Committee on Science of the House of Representatives on his findings and received drawings of the WTC, which were unavailable to researchers, from the Committee to continue his studies of the WTC structure. Since then and for the last 5 years, he has led a team of 11 highly qualified volunteer researchers and engineers and completed the analyses of the impact of various airplanes on the World Trade Center towers in order to learn lessons from this tragedy that can be used to prevent such catastrophic collapses in the future and to save lives.
The focus of this lecture will be on the results of a five-year study of the structural aspects of the WTC design and the subsequent collapse.
Date: October 25, 2007
Time: 12:30 – 1:30 P.M.
Location: Bldg. 50 Auditorium
Please contact D. Mercedes@ 510-486-4974 for additional information.
