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Record W2022374272 · doi:10.1061/40514(290)13

Tunnel Leak Remediation at the Toronto Subway

2000· article· en· W2022374272 on OpenAlexaffabout
Luigi Narduzzo

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicGrouting, Rheology, and Soil Mechanics
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsInfiltration (HVAC)EngineeringEnvironmental remediationCivil engineeringWaste managementEnvironmental scienceContamination

Abstract

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The spring of 1997 marked the beginning of a professionally engineered, state-of-the-art remediation grouting program at the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). A Tunnel Leak Remediation program was developed with the objective of stopping the water infiltration problems that plagued the Toronto subway tunnels since their construction. Water infiltration into the subway tunnels results in service affecting delays as well as concerns relating to the safe operation of a transportation system serving over a million riders per day. Problems include: accelerated aging of the rail and rail fastening systems, deterioration and malfunction of electrical systems and associated components and deterioration of the structure itself. A two-hour nightly working window, in which maintenance activities can be performed, combined with the marginally injectable ground conditions and difficult tunnel structure made achieving positive results especially challenging. An engineered solution grouting injection program using acrylamide technically proved to be the most suitable design for this particular application. The newly hired in-house work force had never previously worked with acrylamide solution grouts and therefore had to be trained and coached in all aspects of the grouting procedures. The acrylamide grouting operation is closely monitored under stringent quality control parameters and is implemented under what is likely one of the highest levels of personal protection ever used for an acrylamide grouting application. Acrylamide was never previously used anywhere on Toronto Transit Commission property, but it has demonstrated to be an invaluable tool in solving difficult water infiltration problems in difficult ground conditions under a limited two hour working window. This paper shares some of the experiences gained to date in this on-going Tunnel Leak Remediation Program at the Toronto Transit Commission.

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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)0.001
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: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.350
Threshold uncertainty score0.704

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0040.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.186
Teacher spread0.180 · 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
GenreEmpirical

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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