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Record W2193676716

EVALUATION OF 407ETR PAVEMENT

2001· article· en· W2193676716 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
S Zaghloul, D Aspinwall, J B Kerr

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicInfrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSkid (aerodynamics)Falling weight deflectometerEngineeringInternational Roughness IndexPavement managementDeflection (physics)Transport engineeringForensic engineeringCivil engineeringGeotechnical engineeringSubgradeStructural engineeringSurface finish
DOInot available

Abstract

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407ETR is a multi-lane, electronic toll highway that currently runs 69 km across the top of the Greater Toronto Area. 407ETR is four lanes, except between Highway 10 and McCowan Road, which is six lanes. To accommodate future traffic needs, 407ETR has the capability of expanding to 10 lanes. 407ETR was built in stages, in just four-and-a-half years. The first phase of 407ETR was opened in the summer of 1997, with extensions opened in 1997, 1998 and 1999. Traffic volume has risen steadily since tolling began and continues to grow with over 240,000 average weekday trips each month! A comprehensive pavement evaluation program was performed on 407ETR to determine the pavement conditions and to identify areas with high possibility of premature deterioration. Advanced, non-destructive testing (NDT) techniques were implemented in this program to detect performance problems at early stages before they manifest on the pavement surface in the form of distresses. The pavement evaluation program consisted of a visual distress survey, a profile based rideability (roughness) survey, a skid resistance survey and a limited deflection survey using the Falling Weight Deflectometer (FWD). Several analyses were performed on the collected data. These analyses included the calculation of the MTO Distress Manifestation Index (DMI), the International Roughness Index, (IRI), the MTO Riding Comfort Index (RCI) and the Surface Friction Number (FN), estimating joint faulting, determining the in-situ pavement structural capacity and foundation condition, evaluating the load transfer efficiency across transverse joints and detecting the existence of voids underneath the PCC slabs. Results of the comprehensive pavement evaluation program performed on 407ETR indicated that the overall condition of the pavement is good. However, based on the deflection analysis and the faulting analysis some preventative maintenance is required. This paper describes the testing and analysis performed on 407ETR, as well as the analysis performed to identify the need for preventative maintenance. For the covering abstract of this conference see ITRD number E201066. (A)

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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 categoriesnone
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 score0.588
Threshold uncertainty score0.288

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)0.0000.000

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 head0.020
GPT teacher head0.253
Teacher spread0.233 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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