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Record W80534270 · doi:10.1061/41171(401)159

When the Roof Collapses

2011· article· en· W80534270 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
William T. Bolduc

Bibliographic record

VenueStructures Congress 2011 · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicConstruction Engineering and Safety
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRoofDeckForensic engineeringSnowProgressive collapseEngineeringCivil engineeringMeteorologyReinforced concreteStructural engineeringGeography

Abstract

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An overview of the many recent cases of roof collapse and the collapse of other portions of buildings in the United States and Canada is given. This paper discusses many of the recent cases of collapses of buildings or portions of buildings that usually get only local news coverage. In most cases roofs collapse under heavy snow loads, although some also fail under wind or rain loads. Many example cases are given based on information collected from local news coverage and other sources. In most cases, the collapse occurs in ordinary buildings and there are few, if any, serious injuries. In many cases the building gives the occupants some warning of collapse and people escape. One exception to the lack of injuries occurs when a wood deck fails. When a wood deck fails, the deck is usually loaded with people. Surprising, the frequency of collapse may be higher in schools and firehouses. Collapse of a portion of a school or a firehouse is upsetting to the public, even when there are no injuries.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.043

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0020.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0130.005

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 head0.014
GPT teacher head0.184
Teacher spread0.170 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
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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Published2011
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