Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis summarizes the results of an experimental investigation involving the testing of push-out specimens with channel shear connectors.The test program involved the testing of 78 push-out specimens and was aimed at the development of new equations for channel shear connectors embedded in solid concrete slabs and slabs with wide ribbed metal deck oriented parallel to the beam.The test specimens were designed to study the effect of a number of parameters on the shear capacity of channel shear connectors.Six series of push-out specimens were tested in two phases.The primary difference between the two phases was the height of the channel connector.Other test parameters included the compressive strength of concrete, the length and the web thickness of the channel.Three different types of failure mechanisms were observed.In specimens with higher strength concrete, failure was caused by the fracture of the channel near the fillet with the channel web acting like a cantilever beam.Crushing-splitting of concrete was the observed mode of failure in specimens with solid slabs when lower strength concrete was used.In most of the specimens with metal deck slabs, a concrete shear plane type of failure was observed.In the specimens involving this type of failure, the channel connector remained intact and the concrete contained within the flute in front of channel web sheared off along the interface.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".