scholarly journals Application of Machine Learning Algorithms in Structural Health Monitoring Research

Author(s):  
Y. Hamishebahar ◽  
H. Z. Li ◽  
H. Guan
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.12) ◽  
pp. 793 ◽  
Author(s):  
B Shanthi ◽  
Mahalakshmi N ◽  
Shobana M

Structural Health Monitoring is essential in today’s world where large amount of money and labour are involved in building a structure. There arises a need to periodically check whether the built structure is strong and flawless, also how long it will be strong and if not how much it is damaged. These information are needed so that the precautions can be made accordingly. Otherwise, it may result in disastrous accidents which may take away even human lives. There are various methods to evaluate a structure. In this paper, we apply various classification algorithms like J48, Naive Bayes and many other classifiers available, to the dataset to check on the accuracy of the prediction determined by all of these classification algorithms and ar-rive at the conclusion of the best possible classifier to say whether a structure is damaged or not.  


Author(s):  
Bjørn T. Svendsen ◽  
Gunnstein T. Frøseth ◽  
Ole Øiseth ◽  
Anders Rønnquist

AbstractThere is a need for reliable structural health monitoring (SHM) systems that can detect local and global structural damage in existing steel bridges. In this paper, a data-based SHM approach for damage detection in steel bridges is presented. An extensive experimental study is performed to obtain data from a real bridge under different structural state conditions, where damage is introduced based on a comprehensive investigation of common types of steel bridge damage reported in the literature. An analysis approach that includes a setup with two sensor groups for capturing both the local and global responses of the bridge is considered. From this, an unsupervised machine learning algorithm is applied and compared with four supervised machine learning algorithms. An evaluation of the damage types that can best be detected is performed by utilizing the supervised machine learning algorithms. It is demonstrated that relevant structural damage in steel bridges can be found and that unsupervised machine learning can perform almost as well as supervised machine learning. As such, the results obtained from this study provide a major contribution towards establishing a methodology for damage detection that can be employed in SHM systems on existing steel bridges.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (Special Issue on First SACEE'19) ◽  
pp. 77-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khalid Mosalam ◽  
Sifat Muin ◽  
Yuqing Gao

This paper presents two on-going efforts of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) center in the area of structural health monitoring. The first is data-driven damage assessment, which focuses on using data from instrumented buildings to compute the values of damage features. Using machine learning algorithms, these damage features are used for rapid identification of the level and location of damage after earthquakes. One of the damage features identified to be highly efficient is the cumulative absolute velocity. The second is vision-based automated damage identification and assessment from images. Deep learning techniques are used to conduct several identification tasks from images, examples of which are the structural component type, and level and type of damage. The objective is to use crowdsourcing, allowing the general public to take photographs of damage and upload them to a server where damage is automatically identified using deep learning algorithms. The paper also introduces PEER.s effort and preliminary results in engaging the engineering and computer science communities in such developments through the PEER Hub Image-Net (F-Net) challenge.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 5727
Author(s):  
Sifat Muin ◽  
Khalid M. Mosalam

Machine learning (ML)-aided structural health monitoring (SHM) can rapidly evaluate the safety and integrity of the aging infrastructure following an earthquake. The conventional damage features used in ML-based SHM methodologies face the curse of dimensionality. This paper introduces low dimensional, namely, cumulative absolute velocity (CAV)-based features, to enable the use of ML for rapid damage assessment. A computer experiment is performed to identify the appropriate features and the ML algorithm using data from a simulated single-degree-of-freedom system. A comparative analysis of five ML models (logistic regression (LR), ordinal logistic regression (OLR), artificial neural networks with 10 and 100 neurons (ANN10 and ANN100), and support vector machines (SVM)) is performed. Two test sets were used where Set-1 originated from the same distribution as the training set and Set-2 came from a different distribution. The results showed that the combination of the CAV and the relative CAV with respect to the linear response, i.e., RCAV, performed the best among the different feature combinations. Among the ML models, OLR showed good generalization capabilities when compared to SVM and ANN models. Subsequently, OLR is successfully applied to assess the damage of two numerical multi-degree of freedom (MDOF) models and an instrumented building with CAV and RCAV as features. For the MDOF models, the damage state was identified with accuracy ranging from 84% to 97% and the damage location was identified with accuracy ranging from 93% to 97.5%. The features and the OLR models successfully captured the damage information for the instrumented structure as well. The proposed methodology is capable of ensuring rapid decision-making and improving community resiliency.


Increased attentiveness on the environmental and effects of aging, deterioration and extreme events on civil infrastructure has created the need for more advanced damage detection tools and structural health monitoring (SHM). Today, these tasks are performed by signal processing, visual inspection techniques along with traditional well known impedance based health monitoring EMI technique. New research areas have been explored that improves damage detection at incipient stage and when the damage is substantial. Addressing these issues at early age prevents catastrophe situation for the safety of human lives. To improve the existing damage detection newly developed techniques in conjugation with EMI innovative new sensors, signal processing and soft computing techniques are discussed in details this paper. The advanced techniques (soft computing, signal processing, visual based, embedded IOT) are employed as a global method in prediction, to identify, locate, optimize, the damage area and deterioration. The amount and severity, multiple cracks on civil infrastructure like concrete and RC structures (beams and bridges) using above techniques along with EMI technique and use of PZT transducer. In addition to survey advanced innovative signal processing, machine learning techniques civil infrastructure connected to IOT that can make infrastructure smart and increases its efficiency that is aimed at socioeconomic, environmental and sustainable development.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (21) ◽  
pp. 10072
Author(s):  
Die Liu ◽  
Yihao Bao ◽  
Yingying He ◽  
Likai Zhang

Missing data caused by sensor faults is a common problem in structural health monitoring systems. Due to negative effects, many methods that adopt measured data to infer missing data have been proposed to tackle this problem in previous studies. However, capturing complex correlations from measured data remains a significant challenge. In this study, empirical mode decomposition (EMD) combined with a bidirectional gated recurrent unit (BiGRU) is proposed for the recovery of the measured data. The proposed EMD-BiGRU converts the missing data task as predicted task of time sequence. The core of the method is to predict missing data using the raw data and decomposed subsequence as the decomposed subsequence can improve the predicted accuracy. In addition, the BiGRU in the hybrid model can extract the pre-post correlations of subsequence compared with traditional artificial neural networks. Raw acceleration data collected from a three-story structure are used to evaluate the performance of the EMD-BiGRU for missing data imputation. The recovery results of measure data show that the EMD-BiGRU exhibits excellent performance from two perspectives. First, the decomposed subsequence can improve the accuracy of the BiGRU predicted model. Second, the BiGRU outperforms other machine learning algorithms because it captures more microscopic changes of measured data. The experimental analysis suggests that the change patterns of raw measured signal data are complex, and therefore it is significant to extract the features before modeling.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federica Zonzini ◽  
Francesca Romano ◽  
Antonio Carbone ◽  
Matteo Zauli ◽  
Luca De Marchi

Abstract Despite the outstanding improvements achieved by artificial intelligence in the Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) field, some challenges need to be coped with. Among them, the necessity to reduce the complexity of the models and the data-to-user latency time which are still affecting state-of-the-art solutions. This is due to the continuous forwarding of a huge amount of data to centralized servers, where the inference process is usually executed in a bulky manner. Conversely, the emerging field of Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML), promoted by the recent advancements by the electronic and information engineering community, made sensor-near data inference a tangible, low-cost and computationally efficient alternative. In line with this observation, this work explored the embodiment of the One Class Classifier Neural Network, i.e., a neural network architecture solving binary classification problems for vibration-based SHM scenarios, into a resource-constrained device. To this end, OCCNN has been ported on the Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense platform and validated with experimental data from the Z24 bridge use case, reaching an average accuracy and precision of 95% and 94%, respectively.


Author(s):  
P. Gardner ◽  
R. Fuentes ◽  
N. Dervilis ◽  
C. Mineo ◽  
S.G. Pierce ◽  
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While both non-destructive evaluation (NDE) and structural health monitoring (SHM) share the objective of damage detection and identification in structures, they are distinct in many respects. This paper will discuss the differences and commonalities and consider ultrasonic/guided-wave inspection as a technology at the interface of the two methodologies. It will discuss how data-based/machine learning analysis provides a powerful approach to ultrasonic NDE/SHM in terms of the available algorithms, and more generally, how different techniques can accommodate the very substantial quantities of data that are provided by modern monitoring campaigns. Several machine learning methods will be illustrated using case studies of composite structure monitoring and will consider the challenges of high-dimensional feature data available from sensing technologies like autonomous robotic ultrasonic inspection. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Advanced electromagnetic non-destructive evaluation and smart monitoring’.


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