Durability and Cold Temperature Performance of SBS-Modified Bituminous Roofing Membranes
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The National Research Council of Canada, in collaboration with a Canadian roofing manufacturer, conducted an experimental program to evaluate the durability of SBS-modified bituminous roofing membranes in Canada. This study examined the effect of heat aging on the mechanical and chemical properties of nine commercially available SBS-modified membranes, with emphasis on cold temperature performance. These membranes varied in reinforcements and densities, and were selected to be representative of SBS-modified membranes currently used in Canada. The membrane samples were heat aged in convection ovens at 70±3°C for six months. During this process, some samples were withdrawn at two-month intervals and their tensile properties at 23°C and -30°C, cold flex temperature and glass transition temperature determined. The results confirmed that heat aging mainly affected matrix-controlled properties of the membranes. In addition, the reinforcement controlled the mechanical properties at 23°C but the modified bitumen governed the failure mechanism at -30°C for the polyester reinforced membranes.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".