STUDY OF THE COMPOSITE ACTION OF HOLLOWCORE PANELS USED IN GIRDER-SLAB SYSTEM
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Floor construction with precast hollowcore panels produced by Lafarge Precast Edmonton results in a commonly used girder-slab system. Continuity between the elements is ensured by bent rebars and shear studs. Once all these elements are installed, a structural concrete is poured between the reinforced concrete panels and over the entire floor. The extent of composite action between the rigid diaphragm and the steel beams is not known. Therefore, its potential benefit is not taken into account in the current design procedures for the steel structure. The main components of this research project are the following: an experimental program consisting of a series of 6 large-scale shear tests were carried out. The outcome of this research shows that there is a potential for a composite action between a hollowcore plank and a standard hot rolled W shape. It was found that there is enough confinement to develop the steel stud strength when the beam is connected to the precast prestressed concrete panels using a 1/2" shear stud embedded between the planks and under two to three inches of concrete topping.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 |
| 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) | 0.001 | 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 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".