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Record W595271297 · doi:10.33593/iccp.v10i1.445

Quebec Contractor Experience with Unbonded Concrete Overlays

2025· article· en· W595271297 on OpenAlex
Jean-Pierre Turgeon, Pierre-Louis Maillard

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

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".

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueProceedings of the International Conference on Concrete Pavements · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicBIM and Construction Integration
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOverlayForensic engineeringCivil engineeringEngineeringComputer science

Abstract

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With Quebec’s aging road network and increasing truck traffic, rehabilitation of the province’s main highways is an important issue for Quebec’s transportation ministry (MTQ). The use of a concrete overlay is an economical and environmentally sustainable solution, for both old concrete and old asphalt roads. This paper describes two concrete overlay projects for the rehabilitation of two sections of Highway 40 in the Greater Montreal Area: one over concrete pavement and one over asphalt pavement. The very first concrete overlay done for MTQ was applied on a 5 km stretch of 40-year-old concrete pavement in Vaudreuil. The project included the design, construction, and maintenance of the pavement for 10 years. The second unbonded overlay—and the first “whitetopping” in Quebec--was conducted in 2010. A 7 km portion of Highway A40 in L’Assomption with recurrent rutting problem was resurfaced with a concrete pavement.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

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)0.000
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: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.604
Threshold uncertainty score0.510

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
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 science0.0010.000
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 head0.014
GPT teacher head0.236
Teacher spread0.222 · 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