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Record W2905072493 · doi:10.4324/9781315242217-5

The development and use of the tubular beam, 1830–1860

2017· book-chapter· en· W2905072493 on OpenAlex
S L Smith

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Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicStructural Engineering and Vibration Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDevelopment (topology)Materials scienceMathematicsMathematical analysis

Abstract

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In the mid-nineteenth century, one response to the problem of creating large span structures was the development of the tubular beam. Early beams of this type, for moderate spans, were erected in the 1830s, but it was the construction of large tubes, with spans of over 400 ft (90 m), for the Britannia Bridge that brought this form of structure to the attention of a wider audience. Robert Stephenson and William Fairbairn, designer and detailer of this structure, developed the tubular beam and attempted to have this form of structure used more widely. By 1860, when the Great Victoria Tubular Bridge was opened across the St Lawrence River, in Canada, although many tubular beams had been used, this particular form of beam had fallen out of favour. This paper discusses the differences between the first and last of these large-span bridges, some of the reasons for the changes in attitudes towards this form of structure; and how these were related to new ideas in structural design generally. An attempt is made to identify the people who questioned the economic viability and efficiency of the tubular beam in the technical press and at institutional meetings, and to offer some reasons why it fell from favour and exerted little influence on the subsequent evolution of large span structures.

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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 categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.943
Threshold uncertainty score0.345

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
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Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.018
GPT teacher head0.189
Teacher spread0.171 · 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