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Record W2883417810 · doi:10.1115/1.2000-feb-7

Getting a Firmer Grip

2000· article· en· W2883417810 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueMechanical Engineering · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicMechanical stress and fatigue analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLift (data mining)von Mises yield criterionStructural engineeringFinite element methodEngineeringSlippageMechanical engineeringFlangeComputer science

Abstract

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This article explains joint engineering efforts of engineers in designing a safer connector between the cable and chair on the lift. Whistler Mountain, along with two other ski areas in the British Columbia/Alberta region, Silver Star and Lake Louise, joined to find a replacement for the grips that would fit the existing chairlift structure and could be implemented quickly. The new grip design eliminates dependence on gravity to secure the grip to the cable on the ski lift. Helical springs exert the entire gripping force and prevent slippage. Linear static stress analyses were performed under two specific conditions: when the jaws were closed and attached to the cable, and when the jaws were open for transition to the loading track, where the force of the springs was the greatest. Built-in visualization tools in the finite element analysis (FEA) software were used to view the stress results with a von Mises display. According to the conclusive results of the testing, the grip was solid. With the tough design criteria, rigorous testing in manufacturing, and scrutiny by a regulatory body, Pol-X West was presented with a situation that ensured a very safe product while using the existing lift equipment and minimizing the resorts’ downtime. The lifts installed with the new grips have since operated successfully, without incident.

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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 categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
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 score0.476
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

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)0.0040.000

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 head0.179
Teacher spread0.173 · 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