Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Ribbon Floating Bridges
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Floating bridges are temporary or permanent structures that utilize the buoyancy of water to resist loads imposed by traversing vehicles and can be used for emergency water crossings or during war. Due to the advent of heavier and faster vehicles, coupled with the dearth of analysis and design information on ribbon floating bridges, it is important to investigate the behaviour of these bridges under various vehicle crossing conditions. This study examines the dynamic behaviour and potential to increase the vehicle-crossing capacity of a hinge-connected ribbon floating bridge. A finite element program was developed to simulate the vertical displacement response of the floating bridge when subjected to single or multiple vehicles of varying weight, speed, and inter-vehicle spacing. A 1/25-scale experimental model was constructed to physically investigate bridge behaviour and to validate the developed finite element program for further parametric analyses.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 it