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Record W98760812

Defying the Odds: The Stone Arch Bridge

2010· article· en· W98760812 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Jenny Jones

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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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
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: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.015
Threshold uncertainty score0.035

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0040.003
Scholarly communication0.0040.004
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.002

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

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
GenreOther

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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