Design of a Retractable Inlet Cover
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Abstract
The purpose of this project is to design a retractable cover that can prevent snow and ice from entering the inlet of a 25 foot diameter bell-mouth at the Global Aerospace Center for Icing and Environmental Research (GLACIER) Testing Facility in Thompson, Manitoba. The client is MDS AeroTest and the design team (Team 8 – OmegaTech) is comprised of four undergraduate students from the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. Team OmegaTech have used their collective engineering skill and experience developed over the past 4-5 years of education and related internship experience to design a fully functioning, retractable cover, which will be operable by one person. In addition to keeping snow out of the bell mouth and being retractable, the design must be safe, structurally stable and operable by a single person. No components may be in front of the bell-mouth when the cover is retracted in order maintain the quality of inlet airflow when testing. The retractable cover must be easily portable and cannot consume track space during the summer testing season. The cover must be durable, reliable, preserve the standards of the current testing and maintenance operations and not exceed $200,000 in cost. OmegaTech has developed a preliminary design to prevent the ingress of snow into the bell-mouth driven by the needs developed by our team and the client. Our team’s design consists of a 22 oz. vinyl-polyester tarp that deploys downward through a set of retractable guides and covers the entire bell-mouth inlet. Remote operation of a variable frequency drive motorized roller allows for simple retraction and deployment of the tarp from a housing cart located above of the bell-mouth. A variable frequency drive motor is also used to power the cart housing, which may be suspended either in front of the bell-mouth when deployed, or completely behind the plane of the bell- mouth inlet when retracted. The cart moves along a set of tracks that are permanently fixed behind the bell-mouth. The tracks are mounted under a support structure that surrounds the bell-mouth and attaches to the steel members supporting the bell-mouth, facilitating portability of […]
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.002 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".