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Advanced Data Mining in Bridge Structural Health Monitoring

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Guest Editors

Prof. Yuan Ren, Southeast University, China.
Email: magren@126.com

Dr. Hwa Kian Chai, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Email: Hwakian.Chai@ed.ac.uk

Dr. Ziyuan Fan, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, China.
Email: fanzy1216@163.com

Prof. Xiaoling Liu, Ningbo University, China.
Email: liuxiaoling@nbu.edu.cn

Prof. Xiang Xu, Southeast University, China.
Email: xxuseu@126.com

Summary

In past decades, great progress in sensing technologies, communication systems and computing algorithms promoted profoundly applications of structural health monitoring (SHM) systems in bridges,  especially  large  span  bridges.  Monitoring  objectives  usually  include  operational environments, external loadings and structural responses. The main purposes of bridge SHM is to  monitor  service  condition,  assess  structural  performance,  and  detect  anomalies,  guiding maintenance and management with the goal of ensuring bridge integrity. Data processing and deep mining play a key role in pursuing this goal, which involve both the theory and applications. Data from multiple sources should meanwhile perform effective fusion. Problems raised during service periods with the utilization of SHM data may also provide significant conclusions for bridge design and construction. In addition, some faults caused by sensors of the SHM system can be diagnosed by data mining. It avoids unnecessary further inspection. In recent years, with the rapid development of data analyzing techniques, including the hot artificial Intelligence and machine learning, many novel methods are proposed to explore data relationships and hidden structural information based on massive bridge SHM data. On the one hand, the adoption of many new techniques and intelligent sensors improves the accuracy and timeliness of collected SHM  data,  on the  other  hand,  it  brings  challenges  in  data  acquisition,  storage,  processing, analysis as well. Thus, the main objective of the special issues is to report advanced data mining methods in bridge SHM and its applications based on latest technique innovations.

 

The specific topics include but not limited to:

Big data theory for bridge SHM

Data acquisition and storage technique

Novel bridge SHM data analysis method

Intelligent sensors

Fusion of multi-source data

Data based sensor fault diagnosis

Data aided bridge design and construction

Structural performance analysis and evaluation

Bridge condition assessment

Maintenance strategy for bridges based on SHM data

Data based anomaly detection for bridges

Case study and application of bridge SHM data


Keywords

Monitoring Data, Machine Learning, Condition Assessment, Time Series Analysis, Smart Bridges, Structural Performance, Anomaly Detection, Early Warning

Published Papers


  • Open Access

    ARTICLE

    Performance Evaluation of Damaged T-Beam Bridges with External Prestressing Reinforcement Based on Natural Frequencies

    Menghui Hao, Shanshan Zhou, Yongchao Han, Zhanwei Zhu, Qiang Yang, Panxu Sun, Jiajun Fan
    Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2024.056250
    (This article belongs to the Special Issue: Advanced Data Mining in Bridge Structural Health Monitoring)
    Abstract As an evaluation index, the natural frequency has the advantages of easy acquisition and quantitative evaluation. In this paper, the natural frequency is used to evaluate the performance of external cable reinforced bridges. Numerical examples show that compared with the natural frequencies of first-order modes, the natural frequencies of higher-order modes are more sensitive and can reflect the damage situation and external cable reinforcement effect of T-beam bridges. For damaged bridges, as the damage to the T-beam increases, the natural frequency value of the bridge gradually decreases. When the degree of local damage to the… More >

  • Open Access

    ARTICLE

    A Deep Learning Estimation Method for Temperature-Induced Girder End Displacements of Suspension Bridges

    Yao Jin, Yuan Ren, Chong-Yuan Guo, Chong Li, Zhao-Yuan Guo, Xiang Xu
    Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2024.055265
    (This article belongs to the Special Issue: Advanced Data Mining in Bridge Structural Health Monitoring)
    Abstract To improve the accuracy of thermal response estimation and overcome the limitations of the linear regression model and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model, this study introduces a deep learning estimation method specifically based on the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network, to predict temperature-induced girder end displacements of the Dasha Waterway Bridge, a suspension bridge in China. First, to enhance data quality and select target sensors, preprocessing based on the sigma rule and nearest neighbor interpolation is applied to the raw data. Furthermore, to eliminate the high-frequency components from the displacement signal, the wavelet transform is… More >

  • Open Access

    ARTICLE

    Life-Cycle Bearing Capacity for Pre-Stressed T-beams Based on Full-Scale Destructive Test

    Yushan Ye, Tao Gao, Liankun Wang, Junjie Ma, Yingchun Cai, Heng Liu, Xiaoge Liu
    Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.19, No.1, pp. 145-166, 2025, DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2024.053756
    (This article belongs to the Special Issue: Advanced Data Mining in Bridge Structural Health Monitoring)
    Abstract To investigate the evolution of load-bearing characteristics of pre-stressed beams throughout their service life and to provide a basis for accurately assessing the actual working state of damaged pre-stressed concrete T-beams, destructive tests were conducted on full-scale pre-stressed concrete beams. Based on the measurement and analysis of beam deflection, strain, and crack development under various loading levels during the research tests, combined with the verification coefficient indicators specified in the codes, the verification coefficients of bridges at different stages of damage can be examined. The results indicate that the T-beams experience complete, incomplete linear, and… More >

  • Open Access

    ARTICLE

    Moment Redistribution Effect of the Continuous Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer-Concrete Composite Slabs Based on Static Loading Experiment

    Zhao-Jun Zhang, Wen-Wei Wang, Jing-Shui Zhen, Bo-Cheng Li, De-Cheng Cai, Yang-Yang Du, Hui Huang
    Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.19, No.1, pp. 105-123, 2025, DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2024.052506
    (This article belongs to the Special Issue: Advanced Data Mining in Bridge Structural Health Monitoring)
    Abstract This study aimed to investigate the moment redistribution in continuous glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP)-concrete composite slabs caused by concrete cracking and steel bar yielding in the negative bending moment zone. An experimental bending moment redistribution test was conducted on continuous GFRP-concrete composite slabs, and a calculation method based on the conjugate beam method was proposed. The composite slabs were formed by combining GFRP profiles with a concrete layer and supported on steel beams to create two-span continuous composite slab specimens. Two methods, epoxy resin bonding, and stud connection, were used to connect the composite… More >

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