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Record W2479892619 · doi:10.1680/feng.2011.164.3.125

Investigations following structural failure of a roof in Canada

2011· article· en· W2479892619 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Stefan Zmigrodzki

Bibliographic record

VenueProceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Forensic Engineering · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicStructural Response to Dynamic Loads
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRoofSnowStructural failureEngineeringCivil engineeringForensic engineeringEnvironmental scienceGeotechnical engineeringStructural engineeringGeology

Abstract

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This paper discusses a complex, multi-parameter approach to questioning the capacity of the roof of an industrial facility in the Montreal area. The failure of a portion of the roof in March 2008 under heavier than usual snow loads triggered an investigation process that continues to this day. The roof was immediately repaired in order to allow the facility to continue its commercial activities. After the repair, an investigation of the snow loads on the roof was first conducted; this was followed by an assessment of the capacity of the roof joists and beams as designed and as built. An evaluation of the snow loads surrounding mechanical units on the roof was conducted. The building was erected in the 1960s and a significant number of changes took place following an expansion of the facility, including an addition with a roof higher than that of the existing building. The new elevated roof reduced the wind effects and created significant snow accumulation not only around the higher roof but also surrounding the mechanical units present almost everywhere. In the assessment of the joists, particular attention was paid to the welds between the web and the chords; these welds were at the origin of the failure of the roof as a whole. An evaluation of the mechanical equipment suspended from the joists was also carried out. An overall assessment of the structural system for earthquake resistance ultimately led to a seismic evaluation of the building, which is currently underway.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.100
Threshold uncertainty score0.202

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

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 head0.006
GPT teacher head0.162
Teacher spread0.155 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
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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