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Defying the Odds: The Stone Arch Bridge

2010· article· en· W98760812 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

VenueCivil engineering · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicStructural Engineering and Vibration Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBridge (graph theory)ArchSalt lakeArch bridgeArchaeologyGeologyEngineeringForensic engineeringCivil engineeringMining engineeringGeographyGeomorphologyStructural basin
DOInot available

Abstract

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As the popularity of the then St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Manitoba Railway (later, the Great Northern Railway Company) began to grow in the late 1870s, the need for a rail bridge in Minneapolis over the Mississippi River became more prominent. This article provides an overview of the construction of that historic bridge, which came to be known as the Stone Arch Bridge. The structure was designed to cross the river at a diagonal with a 6-degree curve that changed the alignment from due west to northwest. The viaduct's 23 arch spans were comprised of 100,000 tons of limestone and granite, some of which came from quarries as far away as Wisconsin and Iowa. The stone was hand laid, and the cement mortar was mixed with salt and hot water to keep it from freezing in the cold weather. Construction of the 2,100-ft-long bridge and the 2 sets of tracks it carried over the Mississippi concluded in November 1883 at a total cost of approximately $700,000.

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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 categoriesnone
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 score0.568
Threshold uncertainty score0.543

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 integrity0.0000.001
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 head0.008
GPT teacher head0.200
Teacher spread0.192 · 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