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Record W3104468081 · doi:10.71846/17-wcee-1465

MASONRY PANEL TESTING IN MALAWI

2025· article· en· W3104468081 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueBristol Research (University of Bristol) · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicConstruction Engineering and Safety
Canadian institutionsWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMasonryForensic engineeringEngineeringStructural engineering

Abstract

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A holistic seismic risk management framework for East Africa, with particular focus on Malawi, is under development as part of the EPSRC-sponsored Global Challenges (GCRF) grant PREPARE. The project aims to co-produce practical tools and guidelines for enhanced disaster preparedness in close partnerships with local governmental and academic institutions. For the seismic vulnerability assessment of masonry buildings in Malawi, a series of tests were conducted in the field and in the Civil Engineering laboratory of the Malawi Polytechnic in Blantyre. The specimens and applied loads are of three main types: (a) single bricks subjected to uniaxial compression and three-point bending; (b) masonry prisms subjected to compression, direct tension and interface shearing; and (c) masonry panels of different brick configurations and reinforcement subjected to in-plane compression/shearing and out-of-plane bending in two planes.<br/>The specimens were built by local artisans using locally produced materials to simulate actual field conditions and indigenous construction methods. The different kinds of reinforcement tested were inspired by the recommendations of the Safer House Construction Guidelines of Malawi. Focusing on the masonry panel tests in (c) above, the main results from the experimental program are presented herein. The results help quantify the effect of simple, available types of retrofitting/reinforcing of masonry houses in Malawi.

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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)0.001
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: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.638
Threshold uncertainty score0.595

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
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 head0.066
GPT teacher head0.263
Teacher spread0.197 · 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