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Record W632463018

THE BALLAD OF BALLINGDON BRIDGE

2000· article· en· W632463018 on OpenAlex

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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

VenueNew Civil Engineer · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicStructural Engineering and Vibration Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBridge (graph theory)EngineeringOpposition (politics)Forensic engineeringArch bridgeSpan (engineering)Transport engineeringCivil engineeringLawArchPolitical science
DOInot available

Abstract

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This article describes the intense local controversy about Ballingdon Bridge, which carries the busy A131 trunk road over the River Stour near Sudbury, Suffolk, England. A 1993 appraisal of the bridge suggested that it had serious defects and that a 3t weight limit should be applied. The foundations including the piles were in bad condition, the transverse beams and slabs were inadequate, and the cantilever footways were suspect. However, even temporary closure of the bridge would cause very severe congestion, as it is the only bridge over the river for miles, and it would cost about #500,000 to divert the public services under the bridge. With the engineers unable to guarantee that a repaired bridge would last for more than five years, it was decided to replace the bridge. Four options for replacement were presented, of which the preferred option was publicly exhibited in September 1999. At first, the response was reasonably good, but it changed to opposition when people realised that local traffic flows would have to be revised completely, with major restrictions on parking and single track working across the bridge for up to two years. A design competition was then held, which was won by a three-span concrete arch design, estimated to cost #2M. Final approval is expected in October 2000.

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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 categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.691
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

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 science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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 head0.006
GPT teacher head0.190
Teacher spread0.183 · 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