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Record W1519958060

Toronto's Tunnel Solution (Available in the Geoenvironmental Special Section only)

2000· article· en· W1519958060 on OpenAlex

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no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueCivil engineering · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicGrouting, Rheology, and Soil Mechanics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsInfiltration (HVAC)EngineeringCivil engineeringEnvironmental remediationDemolitionCrewForensic engineeringEnvironmental scienceContaminationMaterials scienceAeronautics
DOInot available

Abstract

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The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), one of the largest public transportation systems in North America, carries more than 1,000,000 commuters a day. The TTC’s tunnels had not received a major restoration of any kind since their construction, but over the years, water infiltration into the tunnels had contributed to delays and safety concerns. The leakage also contributed to a large range of problems, such as extensive concrete and steel deterioration, an accelerated life cycle for the rail and rail fastening systems, deterioration and malfunction of electrical systems and their components, and decay of the structure itself. In view of the great need for structural maintenance, the TCC made tunnel leak remediation a primary objective. The engineers decided that a state-of-the-art acrylamide grouting program would bring an end to the water infiltration problems. Acrylamide was chosen because of its controllable set times, its ability to penetrate the finest and tightest fissures and low-permeability soils, its ability to absorb surrounding water and encapsulate it in the final gel, and its low initial viscosity. The engineers also found that they could accurately predict the volumes of the acrylamide to be used at each location, allowing a precise quantity of material that can be batched on a given shift. The results attained to date have been very successful, and the program is expected to expand in the years to come to include a second grouting work car and a larger crew.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.144
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.005
GPT teacher head0.161
Teacher spread0.156 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it