Long-Term Performance of HDPE Geomembranes Exposed to High Service Temperature
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Abstract
Polyethylene geomembranes typically have poor behavior when exposed to high temperature. Polyethylene materials soften as the temperature increases and lose their strength completely near 120C. Other research with landfill liners has shown that increasing the service temperature of a polyethylene geomembrane to 85C can reduce the service life of the liner to as little as 3 years through the rapid depletion of antioxidants. In this paper, the performance of a high temperature resistant geomembrane material was evaluated over a year-long period and compared to other geomembrane materials. The samples were exposed to three different service temperatures and then periodically evaluated for antioxidant retention. An Arrhenius-model was used to project antioxidant depletion. The projected service life of HDPE geomembranes exposed to high temperatures in these conditions was estimated considering antioxidant depletion as the end-of-life criteria.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
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".