Mechanistic Characterization and Performance Evaluation of Recycled Aggregate Systems
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper provides a mechanistic procedure for performance characterization of recycled aggregate systems for use as aggregate base layers. Twelve recycled aggregate systems with different lithologies and known field performance histories were selected for this study. The aggregate sources were selected from seven different states with different climatic conditions to account for the environmental impacts on the performance of the pavements constructed with recycled materials. A comprehensive material testing protocol was followed to characterize the mechanical and physio-chemical properties of the recycled aggregate systems. A shear strength test at different confinement levels and the Canadian freeze-thaw test, Micro-Deval test, and tube suction test were performed on the samples. Analysis of the laboratory tests showed that several recycled systems performed equally or better compared to control systems consisting of virgin aggregates in terms of higher shear strength and higher hardening index. Laboratory test results also showed that recycled concrete (RC) materials typically had superior mechanical properties such as a higher resilient modulus and hardening index compared to recycled asphalt (RA) systems; however, RC systems showed higher frost susceptibility. The laboratory analysis and numerical simulation results presented in this study underscore the significance of climatic conditions and subgrade soil type when a RA system is considered as a viable option.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".