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To: John S Mosby

Beyond dangerous

Interesting to see the core with shear walls remain intact on the way down.


53 posted on 02/03/2021 9:03:47 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

That core was the elevator core with massive poured rebarred sections of hydraulic contrete. The outer sections were blown first, then the interior cores were blown in sequence with much more powerful charges— again in sequence. It left quite a pile tough concrete and rebar in the center pile as you observed.

All the rebar was separated from the concrete mechanically (cannot imagine this) and the rebar was smelted in recycling facilities back to refined steel for various applications.


54 posted on 02/03/2021 9:08:46 AM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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