Originally Posted by
bofors
Cute... but this guy does not appear examine how far away from the truth "near" is.
This paper largerly appears to take the junk science served up by Bazant & Zhou, with their ludicrous multi-story "free fall" nonsense, and applies concepts associated with propagating instability phenomena to it.
While it may be interesting to probe equation (21) for condition of "collapse" stop, the only other thing this paper may good for is to see if it predicts asymmetric "collapse" propagation.
Well, for heaven's sake, it is your responsibility to send a detailed criticism to the journal in which the article appears. Please get on it!
Seriously.