Rural Appropriate Technology: Using Locally Available Wires for Pre-tensioning
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The prices of the building materials are skyrocketing in these days in almost all developing countries, resulting in disturbing the picture of dream home from a mind of middle class rural citizens. This paper reports the results of an experimental study of the thin concrete slab panels with concrete beams pre-tensioned with locally available galvanized iron wires to prove a low cost and effective substitute for conventional pipe purlin supported GI sheet roofing system, using the concept of Rural Appropriate Technology (RAT). Wires used are up to 4mm diameter with recorded ultimate tensile stress is up to 700N/mm2. Being located tropical region the temperature variation in central India ranges from 7o to 450 which makes the conventional roofing system almost useless in summer. The proposed roofing system will help to solve this problem to a considerable extent as concrete bad conductor of heat. This system also helps in bringing down the cost of roofing, promoting the use of locally available labourer to slowdown the movement of rural people towards metros, and use local material to reduce overexploitation of natural resources.
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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 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".