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Record W1980037714 · doi:10.1061/41098(368)20

Steel Sheet Pile Wall Wale Rehabilitation

2010· article· en· W1980037714 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
M. R. Ramsden, TL Griffiths

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicConstruction Engineering and Safety
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsStructural engineeringSheet pilePierTension (geology)Load bearingAnchoringEngineeringRodPileMaterials scienceComposite materialCompression (physics)

Abstract

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Catalyst Paper Corporation's "A" Dock is located on the Georgia Strait on the west coast of British Columbia, Canada. "A" Dock is a deep-sea port structure used to load paper onto sea-going barges. The facility consists of a steel sheet pile pier supporting a warehouse. The steel sheet pile structure had experienced significant structural deterioration since its original construction. Recent inspections determined that the tie-rod to wale connections had lost significant cross-section due to corrosion, and seven consecutive connections had become completely detached, reducing the load carrying capacity of the structure significantly and inducing increased moments in the steel sheet piles. As a result, significant lateral wall movement, subsidence, and damage to the structures supported by the sheet pile wall had occurred. The decreased structural capacity required load restrictions to be implemented that substantially reduced the utility of the warehouse facility. The steel sheet piles were determined to have considerable residual life and rehabilitation of the structure was feasible. Repair options were limited by the advanced deterioration of certain components of the structure, the client's requirement to maintain operations during the repair program, and the structural requirement to maintain tension in the tie-rods. The section of the structure that exhibited the most advanced deterioration was rehabilitated using a new internal wale connected with a unique tie-rod extension to reconfigure the tie-rods to bear on the internal wale. Other sections of the structure were rehabilitated with an external repair replacing the tie-rod to wale connections with a cost-effective, easy-to-install connection detail that re-tensioned the existing tie-rod. The project was completed on budget and schedule, with no interruption to operations, allowing Catalyst Paper to continue shipping product at approximately 5% of the cost of a replacement structure.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.011
Threshold uncertainty score0.037

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.004

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 head0.002
GPT teacher head0.172
Teacher spread0.170 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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