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Assessment of additional ASR damage resulting from residual expansion tests using the DRI and SDT test methods

2025· article· en· W4411586197 on OpenAlexafffund
E. Baret, Benoît Fournier, Benoı̂t Bissonnette, Mohsen Khaleghi, Luc Courard, M. Ranger

Bibliographic record

VenueConstruction and Building Materials · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicConcrete Corrosion and Durability
Canadian institutionsUniversité Laval
FundersMitacs
KeywordsMaterials scienceResidualResidual strengthComposite materialTest methodTest (biology)Structural engineeringForensic engineeringComputer scienceEngineeringMathematicsGeologyStatisticsAlgorithm

Abstract

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Currently, ASR damage evaluation of concrete road infrastructure can be done following FHWA protocol (Fournier et al., 2010) [1]. The current level of ASR damage (diagnosis) is evaluated using the Damage Rating Index (DRI) and the Stiffness Damage Test (SDT), and future potential of damage (prognosis) is assessed using residual expansion tests, in humid air (> 95 % RH and T = 38 ± 3 °C) and alkaline solution (NaOH 1 N, 38 ± 3 °C). While accelerated expansion tests on cores have been used for decades, they provide only limited insights into ASR severity, without providing information on the ASR damage mechanisms, nor allowing extrapolation to the structural level. The aim was to identify correlations between pre- and post-expansion test results and additional expansion generated by assessing the actual extent and mechanisms of extra ASR damage caused by these tests. Results of the expansion tests in humid air were inconclusive, making the test procedure questionable. On the other hand, residual expansion tests in alkaline solution proved to be more relevant for assessing potential future damage to concrete. No new damage mechanism related to the added alkalis could be identified. The results indicated a comparable progression of ASR damage between the NaOH solution and in situ conditions. A cracking pattern in concrete at high expansion levels due to ASR was identified based on petrographic examination of test specimens following residual expansion testing in 1 N NaOH solution.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.128
Threshold uncertainty score0.411

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.330
Teacher spread0.312 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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