Site-Specific Geotechnical Resistance Factors for a Large Industrial Project in Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Values for reliability index and associated geotechnical resistance factors for design of buildings are given in applicable codes (e.g. National Building Code of Canada (NBCC)). However, the use of the NBCC may not be strictly applicable or efficient for industrial structures with limited to no occupancy or do not satisfy the definition of building. The owner and their geotechnical consultant collaborated to produce project and site-specific geotechnical resistance factors for the design of driven steel pipe piles. Geotechnical investigation and pile load test results were used to confirm the accuracy and bias of two geotechnical prediction methods. Target reliability indices were selected based on risk considerations, structure type and through consideration of redundancy in pile groups. The derived resistance factors were sensitive to the prediction method used, which highlights the importance of selecting appropriate characteristic values for design. It was estimated that applying the results of this study would reduce foundation construction costs for this project by 40% and save millions of dollars.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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".