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Record W789111607

Pattullo Bridge Emergency Repair

2009· article· en· W789111607 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
D Woolford, Daniel Franklin Matson

Bibliographic record

Venue2009 ANNUAL CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION OF THE TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION OF CANADA - TRANSPORTATION IN A CLIMATE OF CHANGE · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicFire effects on concrete materials
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDemolitionBridge (graph theory)Forensic engineeringTruckEngineeringCivil engineeringTransport engineering
DOInot available

Abstract

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The Pattullo Bridge was completed in 1937, and serves as a major link between the communities of New Westminster and Surrey in the Metro Vancouver Area, carrying up to 70,000 vehicles per day, which is a significant portion of all traffic crossing the Fraser River. During construction of the bridge 3 timber spans were added to the Surrey end in place of 18m of granular embankment due to the excessive settlements experienced during construction. In 2007 TransLink identified the timber spans as requiring replacement due to their age, condition and susceptibility to fire damage, and had hired Buckland & Taylor in early 2008 to prepare a design for their replacement. On January 18, 2009 the timber spans were destroyed by fire, completely closing the bridge to all traffic (car, truck, pedestrian and cyclist) and disrupting the movement of goods and people throughout a large portion of the Metro Vancouver area. Post-fire demolition and disposal of the structure was complicated by the fact that the timbers were treated with creosote, and that the asphalt wearing surface of the bridge potentially contained asbestos. Within 8 days of the fire the damaged timber structure was demolished, and a replacement structure was located, re-engineered, modified, installed and opened to traffic.

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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: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.288
Threshold uncertainty score0.992

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 head0.016
GPT teacher head0.221
Teacher spread0.205 · 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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