Bibliographic record
Abstract
Stone buildings found across Canada were constructed in a different era according to different engineering methodologies than new buildings. These buildings are important representations of the history of the country and should be preserved for future generations. One of the major concerns with these structures is the out-of-plane strength of the walls under earthquake loads. Many of these buildings, notably churches, include buttresses which were originally included to improve the out-of-plane strength of the walls. Current Codes and Standards in Canada do not provide guidance for engineers to assess the out-of-plane strength of walls with buttresses. A survey of churches with buttresses in Ottawa was conducted, acquiring the different sizes and dimensions of buttresses in the downtown core. An Applied Element Method (AEM) software was then used to recreate existing experimental data on the out-of-plane and in-plane strength of stone masonry walls, and the model was modified to analyze the behaviour of buttresses. The results from the modelling program are related back to historic and modern analysis methods obtained from a thorough literature review. i This thesis would not have been possible without the incredible support that I have received.
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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".