ABRASION RESISTANCE OF CONCRETE – DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION AND CASE STUDY
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
One of the most common forms of deterioration imposed on concrete structures is surface abrasion. This mechanical wearing can be a catalyst for other forms of deterioration such as cracking and corrosion of reinforcing steel. This report is intended to discuss three aspects of abrasion. Firstly, the common sources and mechanics of the abrasion of concrete have been identified. Secondly, a literature review has been presented identifying the material aspects and construction methods that impact the abrasion resistance of concrete, including compressive strength, water to cementitious materials ratio, type and size of aggregates, supplementary cementitious materials, chemical admixtures, and curing and finishing practices. Recommendations for specifying and designing concrete mixes, as well as suggested finishing practices that improve abrasion resistance are provided. Finally, a case study has been presented on the ice shield design of Confederation Bridge in Canada, the longest bridge in the world over ice covered water, showcasing how engineers handled the abrasion of concrete in their designs.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it