Convolutional neural network based structural health monitoring for rocking bridge system by encoding time‐series into images

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Islam M. Mantawy ◽  
Mohamed O. Mantawy
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Time Series ◽  
Structural Health Monitoring ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Structural Health ◽  
Bridge System

scholarly journals A New Structural Health Monitoring Strategy Based on PZT Sensors and Convolutional Neural Network

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 2955 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario de Oliveira ◽  
Andre Monteiro ◽  
Jozue Vieira Filho
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Structural Health Monitoring ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Lead Zirconate Titanate ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Lead Zirconate ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Electromechanical Impedance ◽  
Structural Health

Preliminaries convolutional neural network (CNN) applications have recently emerged in structural health monitoring (SHM) systems focusing mostly on vibration analysis. However, the SHM literature shows clearly that there is a lack of application regarding the combination of PZT-(lead zirconate titanate) based method and CNN. Likewise, applications using CNN along with the electromechanical impedance (EMI) technique applied to SHM systems are rare. To encourage this combination, an innovative SHM solution through the combination of the EMI-PZT and CNN is presented here. To accomplish this, the EMI signature is split into several parts followed by computing the Euclidean distances among them to form a RGB (red, green and blue) frame. As a result, we introduce a dataset formed from the EMI-PZT signals of 720 frames, encompassing a total of four types of structural conditions for each PZT. In a case study, the CNN-based method was experimentally evaluated using three PZTs glued onto an aluminum plate. The results reveal an effective pattern classification; yielding a 100% hit rate which outperforms other SHM approaches. Furthermore, the method needs only a small dataset for training the CNN, providing several advantages for industrial applications.

scholarly journals Guided Wave-Convolutional Neural Network Based Fatigue Crack Diagnosis of Aircraft Structures

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (16) ◽  
pp. 3567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu ◽  
Yuan ◽  
Chen ◽  
Ren
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Fatigue Crack ◽  
Structural Health Monitoring ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Guided Wave ◽  
Engineering Applications ◽  
Monitoring Method ◽  
Structural Health ◽  
High Level

Fatigue crack diagnosis (FCD) is of great significance for ensuring safe operation, prolonging service time and reducing maintenance cost in aircrafts and many other safety-critical systems. As a promising method, the guided wave (GW)-based structural health monitoring method has been widely investigated for FCD. However, reliable FCD still meets challenges, because uncertainties in real engineering applications usually cause serious change both to the crack propagation itself and GW monitoring signals. As one of deep learning methods, convolutional neural network (CNN) owns the ability of fusing a large amount of data, extracting high-level feature expressions related to classification, which provides a potential new technology to be applied in the GW-structural health monitoring method for crack evaluation. To address the influence of dispersion on reliable FCD, in this paper, a GW-CNN based FCD method is proposed. In this method, multiple damage indexes (DIs) from multiple GW exciting-acquisition channels are extracted. A CNN is designed and trained to further extract high-level features from the multiple DIs and implement feature fusion for crack evaluation. Fatigue tests on a typical kind of aircraft structure are performed to validate the proposed method. The results show that the proposed method can effectively reduce the influence of uncertainties on FCD, which is promising for real engineering applications.

scholarly journals A New Structural Health Monitoring Strategy Based on PZT Sensors and Convolutional Neural Network

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario A. de Oliveira ◽  
Andre V. Monteiro ◽  
Jozue Vieira Filho
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Structural Health Monitoring ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Lead Zirconate Titanate ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Lead Zirconate ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Electromechanical Impedance ◽  
Structural Health

Preliminaries Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) applications have recently emerged in Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) systems focusing mostly on vibration analysis. However, the SHM literature shows clearly that there is a lack of application regarding the combination of PZT (Lead Zirconate Titanate) based method and CNN. Likewise, applications using CNN along with the Electromechanical Impedance (EMI) technique applied to SHM systems are rare. To encourage this combination, an innovative SHM solution through the combination of the EMI-PZT and CNN is presented here. To accomplish this, the EMI signature is split into several parts followed by computing the Euclidean distances among them to form a RGB (red, green and blue) frame. As a result, we introduce a dataset formed from the EMI-PZT signals of 720 frames, encompassing a total of 4 types of structural conditions for each PZT. In a case study, the CNN-based method was experimentally evaluated using three PZTs glued onto an aluminum plate. The results reveal an effective pattern classification; yielding a 100% hit rate which outperforms other SHM approaches. Furthermore, the method needs only a small dataset for training the CNN, providing several advantages for industrial applications.

scholarly journals Deep residual network framework for structural health monitoring

2020 ◽  
pp. 147592172091837 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruhua Wang ◽  
Chencho ◽  
Senjian An ◽  
Jun Li ◽  
Ling Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Structural Health Monitoring ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Damage Identification ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
The State ◽  
Residual Network ◽  
Structural Health

Convolutional neural networks have been widely employed for structural health monitoring and damage identification. The convolutional neural network is currently considered as the state-of-the-art method for structural damage identification due to its capabilities of efficient and robust feature learning in a hierarchical manner. It is a tendency to develop a convolutional neural network with a deeper architecture to gain a better performance. However, when the depth of the network increases to a certain level, the performance will degrade due to the gradient vanishing issue. Residual neural networks can avoid the problem of vanishing gradients by utilizing skip connections, which allows the information flowing to the next layer through identity mappings. In this article, a deep residual network framework is proposed for structural health monitoring of civil engineering structures. This framework is composed of purely residual blocks which operate as feature extractors and a fully connected layer as a regressor. It learns the damage-related features from the vibration characteristics such as mode shapes and maps them into the damage index labels, for example, stiffness reductions of structures. To evaluate the efficacy and robustness of the proposed framework, an intensive evaluation is conducted with both numerical and experimental studies. The comparison between the proposed approach and the state-of-the-art models, including a sparse autoencoder neural network, a shallow convolutional neural network and a convolutional neural network with the same structure but without skip connections, is conducted. In the numerical studies, a 7-storey steel frame is investigated. Four scenarios with considering measurement noise and finite element modelling errors in the data sets are studied. The proposed framework consistently outperforms the state-of-the-art models in all the scenarios, especially for the most challenging scenario, which includes both measurement noise and uncertainties. Experimental studies on a prestressed concrete bridge in the laboratory are conducted. The proposed framework demonstrates consistent damage prediction results on this beam with the state-of-the-art models.

scholarly journals High-Dimensional Phase Space Reconstruction with a Convolutional Neural Network for Structural Health Monitoring

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 3514
Author(s):  
Yen-Lin Chen ◽  
Yuan Chiang ◽  
Pei-Hsin Chiu ◽  
I-Chen Huang ◽  
Yu-Bai Xiao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Structural Health Monitoring ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Frame Structure ◽  
High Dimensional ◽  
Structural Health ◽  
Multiple Sensors ◽  
Dimensional Phase Space ◽  
Indeterminate Structures

In order to accurately diagnose the health of high-order statically indeterminate structures, most existing structural health monitoring (SHM) methods require multiple sensors to collect enough information. However, comprehensive data collection from multiple sensors for high degree-of-freedom structures is not typically available in practice. We propose a method that reconciles the two seemingly conflicting difficulties. Takens’ embedding theorem is used to augment the dimensions of data collected from a single sensor. Taking advantage of the success of machine learning in image classification, high-dimensional reconstructed attractors were converted into images and fed into a convolutional neural network (CNN). Attractor classification was performed for 10 damage cases of a 3-story shear frame structure. Numerical results show that the inherently high dimension of the CNN model allows the handling of higher dimensional data. Information on both the level and the location of damage was successfully embedded. The same methodology will allow the extraction of data with unsupervised CNN classification to be consistent with real use cases.

scholarly journals Damage Detection in Structural Health Monitoring using Hybrid Convolution Neural Network and Recurrent Neural Network

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (59) ◽  
pp. 461-470
Author(s):  
Thanh Bui-Tien ◽  
Dung Bui-Ngoc ◽  
Hieu Nguyen-Tran ◽  
Lan Nguyen-Ngoc ◽  
Hoa Tran-Ngoc ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Time Series ◽  
Structural Health Monitoring ◽  
Damage Detection ◽  
Recurrent Neural Network ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Damage Identification ◽  
Convolution Neural Network ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Structural Health

The process of damage identification in Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) gives us a lot of practical information about the current status of the inspected structure. The target of the process is to detect damage status by processing data collected from sensors, followed by identifying the difference between the damaged and the undamaged states. Different machine learning techniques have been applied to attempt to extract features or knowledge from vibration data, however, they need to learn prior knowledge about the factors affecting the structure. In this paper, a novel method of structural damage detection is proposed using convolution neural network and recurrent neural network. A convolution neural network is used to extract deep features while recurrent neural network is trained to learn the long-term historical dependency in time series data. This method with combining two types of features increases discrimination ability when compares with it to deep features only. Finally, the neural network is applied to categorize the time series into two states - undamaged and damaged. The accuracy of the proposed method was tested on a benchmark dataset of Z24-bridge (Switzerland). The result shows that the hybrid method provides a high level of accuracy in damage identification of the tested structure.

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