Special Section on Geomechanics and Geosynthetics
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This special section on geomechanics and geosynthetics began at the end of September 2009 with targeted invitations to selected individuals with recognized expertise in the interdisciplinary fields of geomechanics and geosynthetics. Each submission was peer reviewed in strict accordance with the Journal’s policy. The result is the seven papers that appear in this special section. These seven papers address different uses of geosynthetics with a primary focus on their reinforcement function in geotechnical and transportation applications. These applications include geosynthetic-encased columns, geogrid-soil and geogrid-aggregate interactions in reinforced soil structures and reinforced road bases, embankments over rate-sensitive soils, geosynthetic-reinforced piled embankments, seismic behavior of reinforced soil walls, and load and resistance factor design for internal stability of reinforced soil walls. These papers use a range of modeling approaches in geomechanical analysis, including three-dimensional and two-dimensional finite-element modeling, mechanistic-empirical modeling, discreteelement modeling, and probabilistic methods. The breadth of the geosynthetics applications addressed in this collection and the range of analytical, computational, and validation methods employed by the authors demonstrate their value to improve our understanding of the complex mechanics of geosynthetic-geomaterial systems and to advance analysis and design methods. We hope that the readers of this issue will find this special section to be a valuable collection of papers, especially for those interested in numerical modeling of geosynthetics applications, verification of analytical and probabilistic-based design methods, and researchers developing new constitutive models for soils, aggregates, and geosynthetics. We congratulate and thank all of the authors who contributed to this special section. We would also like to acknowledge the valuable contribution of the anonymous reviewers. Finally, we would like to express our appreciation to Professor Musharraf Zaman, the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Geomechanics, for his support and patience in seeing this special section through to completion.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.060 | 0.025 |
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".