First ISIS Canada pedestrian bridge: student design perspective
Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In January 2002, the Intelligent Sensing for Innovative Structures (ISIS) Canada Networks of Centres of Excellence announced its first pedestrian bridge design competition for ISIS students. The bridge is located on the campus of the Université de Sherbrooke to provide a new access to the new east entrance of the Faculty of Engineering Building. The proposed design was required to convey the innovation and ingenuity of the ISIS Canada Research Network through the use of fibre-reinforced-polymer (FRP) materials. Based on these requirements, five graduate students from the Department of Civil Engineering at Queen's University joined forces to produce the winning conceptual design, demonstrating cost-effectiveness, visual stimulation, and innovation. This application paper presents details of the competition and the winning design for the pedestrian bridge as told by the winning design team. The bridge was built during the summer of 2002 at the Université de Sherbrooke. The objective of the paper is to present the student experience from this highly successful competition, and thus to promote similar design competitions for engineering students.Key words: short span, pedestrian bridge, fibre-reinforced polymers, reinforced concrete, conceptual design, innovation, ingenuity.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 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) | 0.000 | 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