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Record W622710788 · doi:10.33593/iccp.v6i1.743

TRENDS IN THE USE OF ROLLER COMPACTED CONCRETE PAVEMENTS IN CANADA

2025· article· en· W622710788 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Robert A. Serne

Bibliographic record

VenueProceedings of the International Conference on Concrete Pavements · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicAsphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRoller-compacted concreteTruckGarbageEngineeringOverlayAsphalt pavementResource (disambiguation)Civil engineeringTransport engineeringAsphaltComputer scienceArchaeologyGeography

Abstract

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This paper covers the development and use of Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC) pavements in Canada since its inception in 1976. The application of RCC in the pavement market has undergone a major expansion and transition since its introduction to the forestry industry in Western Canada (1). Unlike other traditional paving materials, RCC has proven itself as a superior structural pavement in the first instance and is now gaining favour with roadway agencies in the more common municipal arena. Along with specialty applications such as RCC inlays for intersections (Fast-Track RCC!), designers have also used this innovative construction technique for subdivision residential and arterial roadways (2). Examples exist where RCC has been used exclusively for reconstruction of truck lanes (3) on major routes as well as alleys for garbage collection. The first RCC overlay of an existing deteriorated asphalt parking area was completed in 1996. A brief review of RCC as a material will be presented. Construction methodology common to Canada will be covered and alternative construction equipment options will be suggested (4). Example projects will form the main body of the paper. Early applications from the resource based industries in Canada such as forestry, pulp and paper and composting (5) are used to lead into the transition RCC pavement is experiencing. A broad cross-section of roadway applications and commercial uses of RCC are presented to effectively illustrate the emergence of RCC paving as a viable option for today and the future.

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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: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.539
Threshold uncertainty score0.995

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
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 head0.065
GPT teacher head0.278
Teacher spread0.213 · 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 designObservational
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".

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