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Record W641603585

Heritage Aspects of Bridge Engineering

2012· article· en· W641603585 on OpenAlex
J Lucas

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no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

Venue2012 CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION OF THE TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION OF CANADA - TRANSPORTATION: INNOVATIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicCivil and Structural Engineering Research
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBridge (graph theory)DocumentationContext (archaeology)EngineeringIndustrial heritageRelevance (law)Civil engineeringCultural heritageArchitectural engineeringCultural heritage managementConstruction engineeringArchaeologyHistoryPolitical scienceComputer scienceLaw
DOInot available

Abstract

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Century-old bridges may seem functionally obsolete, but their historical relevance should not be lost on the professionals managing these wonderful structures. Two components of heritage are of interest to the London, Ontario engineers who maintain these structures: their purpose, place in time and local relevance; and, their technical engineering heritage reflected by patents and design methods of the day. London's early steel and wrought iron truss bridges are being considered for preservation, enhancement and a continued life. Their future is being assessed with a heritage component built into standard bridge management methods: infrastructure lifecycle planning; expansion and capacity growth planning; environmental assessment studies; and, risk assessment. Bridge managers and engineers have approached the remnants of London's Victorian era of bridge construction in a pragmatic way, taking advantage of heritage documentation and local community input to provide context for design objectives. Consequently, unique features have emerged that transform the timeworn into the revitalized. The project approaches, design features and outcomes are quite varied in four recent London examples. London's achievements on older bridges have been recognized with an award from the Architectural Conservancy (London Regional Branch) and the Heritage London Foundation for its outstanding contribution made to the preservation of London's built heritage. For the covering abstract of this conference see ITRD record number 201211RT334E.

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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)0.000
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 score0.865
Threshold uncertainty score0.982

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)0.0000.000

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 head0.025
GPT teacher head0.207
Teacher spread0.182 · 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