Development of a Green Floating Breakwater with Re-use of PET Bottles
Bibliographic record
Abstract
It is common sense that the ongoing climate changes represent a big challenge to humanity to protect housing, industries, nature and lives. This causes changes in strategies and in the conception of development and growth. Thinking is changing; the planet has to be preserved and protected not only its resources explored. All industries are engaged in this cause and so is construction. This article presents and alternative specifically for sustainable construction in coastal protection. Coastal engineering is constantly developing new projects in turn of shore protection and also to contribute positively to the environment. Despite climate changes, the development of industries and modern lifestyle generate tons of waste every year and, as result, it has to be disposed and treated. One way of reducing the amount of waste that goes into the environment is to reuse disposed items. Another way of reusing plastic bottles, a significant part of Brazil’s domestic waste, is presented and in a different application as commonly found: in coastal engineering. The breakwater that is being developed, consumes millions of bottles depending on the extension of the shore protection arrangement. The construction of the green breakwater is environmentally friendly due to the inert materials that will are used. This concept is under development and research but the physical model was built and tested. It consumed 1260 bottles for its construction and pointed to important issues and questions that have to be addressed during the ongoing project.
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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) | 0.000 | 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 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".