MétaCan
Menu
Back to cohort

The Beauharnois Bridge, Montreal, Canada

2014· article· en· W2328768896 on OpenAlex

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.

aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueStructural Engineering International · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicStructural Engineering and Vibration Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDeckBridge (graph theory)Span (engineering)Beam bridgePrecast concreteStructural engineeringPrefabricationGirderCofferdamEngineeringFormworkBox girderAbutmentCivil engineering

Abstract

fetched live from OpenAlex

The bridge over the Beauharnois Canal (BHC) is the main structure of the Nouvelle Autoroute 30 project, with a total length of 2551 m. It crosses the BHC and the Saint Laurent Seaway (SLS).This paper describes the development of the design and construction process of the Beauharnois Bridge carried out by a leading construction company in Montreal. It describes the construction procedures carried out to achieve the works in a schedule severely limited by the technical clauses of the contract and winter conditions.This paper emphasizes the different prefabrication systems employed in the construction of the bridge and the incremental launching technique used to erect the steel box-girders of the east part over the BHC and the SLS.The bridge superstructure is divided into two parts: the east part, formed by a closed composite structure with a steel box-girder spanning over 82 m, and the west part, designed with a concrete deck composed of five concrete prefabricated beams spanning a typical length of 45 m.The east part, with a length of 1456 m, was designed with no expansion joints. This side of the deck includes the main span of 150 m and was entirely assembled at the east abutment and erected in place using the incremental launching technique.

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 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: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.283
Threshold uncertainty score0.977

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 head0.002
GPT teacher head0.171
Teacher spread0.169 · 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