{ "model": { "rank": 4483, "code": "thing-q184190", "model_id": "vr.tr.reinforced-concrete", "name": "reinforced concrete", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise reinforced concrete, assess its documented material and reinforcement condition, and identify evidence needed before accepting, maintaining or altering it.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.MAT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q184190/", "tier": 2, "score": 75, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "steel reinforced concrete", "prestressed concrete" ], "aliasCount": 2, "merged": 2, "knownIn": 75, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.reinforced-concrete", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q184190", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q184190", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T20:19:31Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 29.7, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a087d2-60fb-7b01-bdfd-8daa44a07ecb\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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neighbouring composite types.", "findings": [ { "id": "reinforcement-system-boundary", "name": "Reinforcement system boundary", "description": "State reinforcement form, material and prestress status, with explicit treatment of mixed systems.", "questions": [ { "text": "What reinforcement forms, materials and grades are present, and which are passive or prestressed?", "kind": "definition", "id": "reinforcement-system-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "Does this instance require links to separate fibre-reinforced or prestressed-concrete models?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "reinforcement-system-boundary-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "reinforcement-and-composite-action", "name": "Reinforcement and composite action", "description": "Describe reinforcement arrangement and the interfaces and details intended to transfer forces.", "rationale": "Constituent properties alone cannot establish whether concrete and reinforcement can perform their intended roles together.", "layers": [ { "id": 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ages, locations and sampling limitations?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "properties-and-crack-baseline-q01" }, { "text": "What crack widths, patterns or deformations were observed, and under what load and environmental conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "properties-and-crack-baseline-q02" }, { "text": "Which interpretations require the host member's geometry, loading and structural assessment?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "properties-and-crack-baseline-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "exposure-and-deterioration", "name": "Exposure and deterioration", "description": "Relate environmental history to deterioration of the matrix, reinforcement and their interface.", "rationale": "Similar visible symptoms can arise from different mechanisms and require different investigations and responses.", "layers": [ { "id": "exposure-pathways", "name": "Exposure pathways", "description": "Identify relevant exposures and routes into the composite.", "findings": [ { "id": "exposure-and-ingress-evidence", "name": "Exposure and ingress evidence", "description": "Record exposure history alongside tests and observations of penetration into the concrete.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which surfaces have experienced wetting, salts, aggressive chemicals, freezing or elevated temperatures, and for how long?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "exposure-and-ingress-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What measurements of carbonation depth, chloride distribution or moisture conditions are relevant to the identified reinforcement?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "exposure-and-ingress-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "damage-mechanisms", "name": "Damage mechanisms", "description": "Separate observed damage from proposed explanations and track its extent.", "findings": [ { "id": "matrix-and-reinforcement-damage", "name": "Matrix and reinforcement damage", "description": "Map spalling, delamination, matrix distress and reinforcement damage without assuming a common cause.", "questions": [ { "text": "What damage is directly observed, where is it located, and what extent or section loss has been measured?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "matrix-and-reinforcement-damage-q01" }, { "text": "What additional evidence would distinguish corrosion-related damage from chemical, thermal, mechanical or other causes?", "kind": "action", "id": "matrix-and-reinforcement-damage-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "intervention-and-verification", "name": "Intervention and verification", "description": "Record constraints and evidence for changing, repairing or reassessing reinforced concrete.", "rationale": "Interventions can affect concealed reinforcement, concrete cover and force transfer, so their acceptability depends on local evidence and the host structure.", "layers": [ { "id": "intervention-constraints", "name": "Intervention constraints", "description": "Establish the material information needed before intrusive work.", "findings": [ { "id": "intrusive-work-readiness", "name": "Intrusive work readiness", "description": "Identify unresolved reinforcement locations, prestress status and damage conditions relevant to a proposed intervention.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which reinforcement, tendon, cover or damaged regions intersect the proposed drilling, cutting, breakout or removal zone?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "intrusive-work-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "What surveys, structural review and work constraints must be resolved before the proposed intervention can proceed?", "kind": "action", "id": "intrusive-work-readiness-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "repair-and-follow-up", "name": "Repair and follow-up", "description": "Connect repairs to their target mechanisms and subsequent verification.", "findings": [ { "id": "repair-compatibility-and-performance", "name": "Repair compatibility and performance", "description": "Record repair materials, interface preparation, reinforcement treatment and evidence of subsequent condition.", "questions": [ { "text": "What deterioration mechanism does the repair address, and what evidence supports compatibility with the existing concrete and reinforcement?", "kind": "action", "id": "repair-compatibility-and-performance-q01" }, { "text": "What acceptance observations and follow-up measurements will establish repair condition and detect renewed deterioration?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "repair-compatibility-and-performance-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This is recalled knowledge, not researched verification; standard editions, national adoption and applicable requirements need checking.", "Reinforced concrete is a variable composite, not a single chemical substance with one CAS number, purity, melting point or universal hazard classification.", "The listed kinds overlap, and numerical ranges describe common constituents or configurations rather than guaranteed properties of every reinforced-concrete member." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of reinforced concrete this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Cast-in-place 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Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a reinforced concrete, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a reinforced concrete, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", 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"evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a reinforced concrete is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a reinforced concrete sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a reinforced concrete, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a reinforced concrete, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a reinforced concrete is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a reinforced concrete from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a reinforced concrete, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a reinforced concrete, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a reinforced concrete is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a reinforced concrete is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a reinforced concrete, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a reinforced concrete, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a reinforced concrete is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and materials", "description": "What a reinforced concrete is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a reinforced concrete, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a reinforced concrete, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a reinforced concrete is known, and what must 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}, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a reinforced concrete is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a reinforced concrete is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a reinforced concrete is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a reinforced concrete, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a reinforced concrete, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a reinforced concrete is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a reinforced concrete is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What 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"evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a reinforced concrete is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a reinforced concrete, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a reinforced concrete is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a reinforced concrete, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a reinforced concrete, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a reinforced concrete is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-and-operation", "name": "Use and operation", "description": "What can be done with a reinforced concrete and what it takes to do it.", "rationale": "An agent that can recognise a thing but not act on it has only half a model.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-use", "name": "Intended use and function", "description": "What a reinforced concrete is for, and what it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose", "name": "Function, 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"description": "The steps, skills and tools involved in using a reinforced concrete.", "findings": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills", "name": "Procedures, skills and required tools", "description": "What an agent needs before it can act on a reinforced concrete at all.", "questions": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes handling a reinforced concrete, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about handling a reinforced concrete, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once handling a reinforced concrete is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ 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decide or do once the supply of a reinforced concrete is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "composition-and-identity", "name": "Composition, grade and chemical identity", "description": "What reinforced concrete is made of and how pure the thing in hand is.", "rationale": "Grade decides what a substance may be used for, so a model that records only the name cannot support any decision about use.", "layers": [ { "id": "chemical-identity", "name": "Chemical identity", "description": "Formula, structure and the registry numbers that name it unambiguously.", "findings": [ { "id": "identity-record", "name": "Identity and registry numbers", "description": "What identifies this substance across suppliers and regulators.", "questions": [ { "id": "identity-record-q01", "text": "What formula, structure and registry identifiers name reinforced concrete unambiguously?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "identity-record-q02", "text": "Which related substances share a name in common use but not an identifier?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "grade-and-impurities", "name": "Grade, purity and impurities", "description": "The specification a batch meets and what else is in it.", "findings": [ { "id": "specification", "name": "Specification and assay", "description": "How purity is stated and measured, and which impurities matter.", "questions": [ { "id": "specification-q01", "text": "What grades of reinforced concrete exist, how is purity assayed, and which impurities are limited?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "specification-q02", "text": "Which use requires which grade, and what happens when a lower grade is substituted?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "properties-and-behaviour", "name": "Properties and behaviour", "description": "How reinforced concrete behaves under conditions an agent can measure or change.", "rationale": "Physical constants are the part of a substance model that transfers between contexts, and each needs its unit and its conditions.", "layers": [ { "id": "physical-constants", "name": "Physical constants", "description": "Values that hold for the pure substance, with their conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "constants-record", "name": "Constants and conditions", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the state they apply in.", "questions": [ { "id": "constants-record-q01", "text": "What are the defining physical constants of reinforced concrete, in what units and under what conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "constants-record-q02", "text": "Which of these values change with grade or form rather than being fixed?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "stability-and-reactivity", "name": "Stability and reactivity", "description": "What it reacts with, degrades into, and how it is stored.", "findings": [ { "id": "incompatibilities", "name": "Incompatibilities and 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"claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a reinforced concrete, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a reinforced concrete is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a reinforced concrete is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a reinforced 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