Bibliographic record
Abstract
The paper describes a synthesis of works conducted by the author in the field of high performance concretes and road skid resistance. Conducted as part of a PhD thesis at the University of Sherbrooke (Canada), the research on the fatigue behavior can characterize high performance concretes - both in terms of materials and structural elements - and compared with normal concrete. The analysis of fatigue life using concepts in reliability can calculate failure probability, indicator more relevant than the average fatigue life. Road skid resistance is ¾ of the research of the author, as a researcher and then team leader and project . The areas covered range of influential factors of skid resistance, including the road surface microtexture, to use the knowledge of available skid resistance - especially when it is degraded - to warn the driver, including also important aspects like the skid resistance evolution with the traffic and the European harmonization of measurement methods. This gradual progression help to deal with skid resistance from its cognitive (understanding, modeling) to applications, and to tackle with the laboratory-to-road transition and the scale change issues. This career of 20 years allowed the author to capture different aspects of research coordination such as project proposals, the development of partnerships - with a strong emphasis on international collaborations, supervision of researchers or management of a laboratory. Independent at first, these bricks were then structured to build a methodology of research coordination. Research perspectives for the future (4-5 years) are also identified to fill perceived gaps in this synthesis.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| 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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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".