Simplified Hazard Modeling and Structural Reliability Analysis Considering Non-Synoptic Wind Systems (NSWS) in Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract High-intensity wind events such as tornadoes and downbursts can be very destructive to structures and infrastructure systems. In the present chapter, an overview of the assessment of the wind hazard due to tornadoes and downbursts for Canadian sites is provided. Available tornado occurrence information available in Canada that can be used as the basis to develop a tornado occurrence model is discussed. The chapter presents an overall framework to develop tornado wind-velocity hazard maps for Canada. It also explores the use of simple equivalent along height wind profile that could be used to evaluate tornadic wind loading for line-like structures and of a practical procedure to evaluate the failure probability of structures subjected to high-intensity wind events. It is indicated that for a certain class of prismatic structures, the use of nonlinear static pushover analysis can be adequate to evaluate the capacity curve of the structure subjected to downburst wind loading. A probabilistic model of the capacity curve obtained in such a manner can then be used to evaluate the structural reliability by incorporating the assessed wind-velocity hazard map and equivalent wind profile.
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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) | 0.001 | 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 | 0.001 |
| 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 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".