Investigation and Diagnosis of Fatigue Cracks of Rib-to-Deck Welded Joints in Orthotropic Decks by the Phased Array Ultrasonic Scanner
Bibliographic record
Abstract
<p>Over the last decade, fatigue cracks have been observed at the rib-to-deck welded joints in many orthotropic decks in Japan. Considering the fatigue cracks can cause pavement damage and thus compromise transportation safety, it is necessary to detect and repair it at the early stage of its development. But the cracks occur from the weld route, it cannot be detected in early stage by visual check. Therefore, the phased array ultrasonic scanner (PAUS) has been developed as the method which can detect and measure the cracks with small size. And, it can simultaneously investigates the deck propagation type cracks and the weld bead propagation type cracks.</p><p>In this study, we propose a diagnosis method which considered the relation with selected countermeasures based on technological knowledge. And we propose an investigation area selecting method based on investigation speed of the PAUS which is confirmed by trial on the real bridge. In addition, the cost advantage by using the PAUS is estimated.</p>
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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) | 0.000 | 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 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".