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Record W2080633485 · doi:10.1061/40555(2001)120

Scour Repairs at Port of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

2001· article· en· W2080633485 on OpenAlex

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicMaterials Engineering and Processing
Canadian institutionsSNC-Lavalin (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNova scotiaHarbourCaissonSheet pileBedrockPort (circuit theory)PebblePileRubbleGeologyContainer (type theory)EngineeringForensic engineeringOceanographyGeotechnical engineeringGeomorphology

Abstract

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The Halterm Container Terminal is located at the entrance to Halifax Harbour on Nova Scotia's Atlantic Coast. The harbour has a natural depth of about 18 m, and is ice free year round. Halterm is one of the most important container terminals on the Canadian East Coast and total throughput for the 12 month period ending August 2000 exceeded 500,000 TEU. In recent years Halterm has been accepting ever larger container ships and in mid-1999 berthed the Regina Maersk, the world's largest container ship at that time. Various methods of repairing the undermining were considered including the use of bagged concrete and large armour stone, but ultimately it was determined that the best long term solution involved the use of steel sheet pile and underwater (tremie) concrete. Steel sheet pile was selected for two reasons, 1) to retain the tremie concrete used to fill the void under the caisson, and 2) to prevent future undermining of the caisson. In the undermined location there was an insufficient thickness of material above bedrock to provide the lateral resistance necessary to retain the tremie concrete and there was also the possibility that this same material would wash out after the repair was complete. It was therefore deemed necessary to key the bottom of the sheet pile into the bedrock.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.556
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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

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.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.186
Teacher spread0.178 · 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

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Published2001
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