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So I was using looking up the minimal energy needed to level a skyscraper, I did some research and the term skyscraper is rather fluid over the years as it refers to very tall buildings, it was first coined around the 1880s, where as the first building to be called a Skyscraper is the Home Insurance Building, and for any building referred to as Skyscrapers over the years have increased in size.
so I did a bit of research that the building has 12 floors (54.9 meters), a width of 30.12 meters and a Length of 38.02 meters.
So I found that the volume of the building is 62869.41576 m^3 = 62869415760 cm^3
and on the wikipedia page, it weighed only one-third as much as a masonry building would have, so I have to multiply the volume by density (2100 kg/m^3) and I get 132026000 kg.
Then I multiply it by (1/3) which is 44008666.6667 kg.
then I would do a reverse which I find the volume to be 20956500000 cm^3
Then I would us the lowest end for hollowness (90%) and multiply it by 69 j/cc (fragmentation), and the result I found is 144599850000 Joules (City Block).
Would this be a good low end for destroying real world skyscrapers?
here is the link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Insurance_Building
so I did a bit of research that the building has 12 floors (54.9 meters), a width of 30.12 meters and a Length of 38.02 meters.
So I found that the volume of the building is 62869.41576 m^3 = 62869415760 cm^3
and on the wikipedia page, it weighed only one-third as much as a masonry building would have, so I have to multiply the volume by density (2100 kg/m^3) and I get 132026000 kg.
Then I multiply it by (1/3) which is 44008666.6667 kg.
then I would do a reverse which I find the volume to be 20956500000 cm^3
Then I would us the lowest end for hollowness (90%) and multiply it by 69 j/cc (fragmentation), and the result I found is 144599850000 Joules (City Block).
Would this be a good low end for destroying real world skyscrapers?
here is the link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Insurance_Building
