Effective foam insulation for single-wythe concrete masonry walls
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of three different methods to apply closed-cell polyurethane foam to single-wythe concrete masonry wall panels, namely, surface spray-on, filled formwork, and grouting the cores of the concrete blocks. Foams with two densities were applied at three different thicknesses. Two-dimensional heat flow simulations were conducted using THERM to determine the overall thermal resistance of the insulated masonry wall panels. Filled formwork application using normal-density foam yielded the highest thermal resistance. Hygrothermal analysis using WUFI Plus revealed that exterior application of the foam is preferred to avoid durability issues and take advantage of the thermal mass and fire resistance of masonry walls.
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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 | 0.001 | 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 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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