Ning-Jie Zhou, You-Lin Xu, Zi-Jing Wei, Di Wu, Er-Hua Zhang
{"title":"Digital Twin-Empowered Analysis of Structural Temperature Field of a Long-Span Suspension Bridge","authors":"Ning-Jie Zhou, You-Lin Xu, Zi-Jing Wei, Di Wu, Er-Hua Zhang","doi":"10.1155/stc/8021513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/stc/8021513","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>Structural temperature field significantly affects structural responses, such as displacements and stresses, of a long-span suspension bridge. An accurate and effective analysis of structural temperature field is therefore important. This study proposes a digital twin-empowered analysis of structural temperature field of a long-span suspension bridge. The real bridge and its surrounding environment are regarded as a physical entity. The information, such as ambient temperature and structural temperature, collected by the structural health monitoring system at the locations of sensors is taken as the data collected from the physical entity. A 3D finite element model of the bridge is then constructed as a virtual entity for heat transfer analysis with solar radiation, wind speed, and other environmental conditions included. The data collected from the physical entity are then mapped to the virtual entity through a particle swarm optimization algorithm to update uncertain parameters in the thermal boundary and convert the virtual entity to a digital twin. The established digital twin is finally used to find and predict the structural temperature field of the entire bridge. The results demonstrate that the digital twin-empowered heat transfer analysis is feasible and able to provide more accurate prediction of the structural temperature field of the entire bridge.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":49471,"journal":{"name":"Structural Control & Health Monitoring","volume":"2025 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1155/stc/8021513","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143831456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bridge Girder-End Displacement Reconstruction Using a Novel Hybrid Attention Mechanism Leveraging Multisource Information","authors":"Guang Qu, Mingming Song, Ye Xia, Limin Sun","doi":"10.1155/stc/8249455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/stc/8249455","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>In the realm of structural health monitoring (SHM) of bridge structures, the accurate reconstruction of girder-end displacement (GED) is crucial for identifying potential structural damage and ensuring the monitoring system’s reliability. A novel fine-grained spatial (FGS) attention mechanism, combined with efficient channel attention (ECA), has been proposed to effectively utilize multisource monitoring data. This hybrid attention mechanism has been integrated into an arithmetic optimization algorithm–bidirectional long short-term memory (AOA–BiLSTM) framework for reconstructing GED using non-GED data, including deflection, temperature, strain, and traffic data. Data are organized into a two-dimensional array based on sensor types and spatial locations to capture interchannel and intrachannel correlations. ECA captures local correlations among different sensor types, while the proposed FGS enhances model interpretability by focusing on local dependencies within each sensor type. Huber loss is employed for robust performance, and AOA techniques are used for efficient hyperparameter optimization. Validation with real-world data from a cable-stayed bridge demonstrates the necessity and efficacy of considering multidimensional information correlations in response reconstruction for SHM applications. This work lays a theoretical foundation for improving safety assessments, anomaly detection, data recovery, and virtual sensing in bridge structures.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":49471,"journal":{"name":"Structural Control & Health Monitoring","volume":"2025 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1155/stc/8249455","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143822309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xinyu Wang, Linlin Xie, Aiqun Li, Tao Wang, Cantian Yang
{"title":"Numerical Simulations of Shaking Table Tests of Metro-Induced Vertical Vibrations of Interstory-Isolated, Base-Isolated, and Fixed-Base Structures","authors":"Xinyu Wang, Linlin Xie, Aiqun Li, Tao Wang, Cantian Yang","doi":"10.1155/stc/8105608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/stc/8105608","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>Metro networks have been extensively developed in large cities to satisfy traffic demands. Adjacent to subways, there has been an increasing construction of fixed-base, base-isolated, and interstory-isolated buildings on metro depots. Notably, metro-induced environmental vibrations have led to vibrations in buildings, thus affecting human health and the regular operation of sensitive equipment. Numerical simulations are considered a valuable method for assessing building vibrations. However, research on a generalized numerical simulation strategy for simulating the metro-induced vibrations of the abovementioned three types of buildings remains rare. Hence, this study recommends a generalized numerical simulation strategy and validates it through the comparison between the results of shaking table tests. The acceleration time histories of floor, distributions of the acceleration at different positions on the slab and along the height of the building, and one-third octave band vertical acceleration levels were accurately simulated for the three structures. Meanwhile, the simulation accuracies of three types of damping models were discussed. The relative differences between the simulated and experimental maximum acceleration amplification coefficients and one-third octave band vertical acceleration levels were both less than 4.2%. Furthermore, the influences of the mesh sizes of the elements for the slabs and the parameters of the Rayleigh damping model on the simulated results were investigated. The recommended simulation strategy can contribute to further investigation of the metro-induced vertical vibration assessment of different types of structures.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":49471,"journal":{"name":"Structural Control & Health Monitoring","volume":"2025 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1155/stc/8105608","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143818408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vision-Aided Damage Detection With Convolutional Multihead Self-Attention Neural Network: A Novel Framework for Damage Information Extraction and Fusion","authors":"Yiming Zhang, Zili Xu, Guang Li, Jun Wang","doi":"10.1155/stc/1677778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/stc/1677778","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>The current application of vibration-based damage detection is constrained by the low spatial resolution of signals obtained from contact sensors and an overreliance on hand-engineered damage indices. In this paper, we propose a novel vision-aided framework featuring convolutional multihead self-attention neural network (CMSNN) to deal with damage detection tasks. To meet the requirement of spatially intensive measurements, a computer vision algorithm called optical flow estimation is employed to provide informative enough mode shapes. As a downstream process, a CMSNN model is designed to autonomously learn high-level damage representations from noisy mode shapes without any manual feature design. In contrast to the conventional approach of solely stacking convolutional layers, the model is enhanced by combining a convolutional neural network (CNN)–based multiscale information extraction module with an attention-based information fusion module. During the training process, various scenarios are considered, including measurement noise, data missing, multiple damages, and undamaged samples. Moreover, the parameter transfer strategy is introduced to enhance the universality of the application. The performance of the proposed framework is extensively verified via datasets based on numerical simulations and two laboratory measurements. The results demonstrate that the proposed framework can provide reliable damage detection results even when the input data are corrupted by noise or incomplete.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":49471,"journal":{"name":"Structural Control & Health Monitoring","volume":"2025 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1155/stc/1677778","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143801405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shoucong Xiong, Leping Zhang, Yingxin Yang, Hongdi Zhou, Leilei Zhang
{"title":"Multisource Heterogeneous Information Selective Fusion Network for Fault Diagnosis of Rolling Bearings","authors":"Shoucong Xiong, Leping Zhang, Yingxin Yang, Hongdi Zhou, Leilei Zhang","doi":"10.1155/stc/6606543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/stc/6606543","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>Till now, deep learning–based intelligent diagnosis models combined with multisource information have become popular, but tough issues like multisource feature extraction and information redundancy may sacrifice the models’ representational power and result in a degraded performance. Aiming at the above problems, this paper proposed a novel model called multisource heterogeneous information selective fusion network (MHI-SFN) for rolling bearing fault diagnosis. In MHI-SFN, multisource heterogeneous signals were stacked together and directly fed into model and grouped convolution was adopted to replace standard convolution throughout the structure, enabling kernels to firstly focus on the feature extraction of every individual signal and then perform efficient feature fusion work as needed. Then, selective kernel modules were designed to adaptively assign suitable kernel sizes and selectively fuse the valuable information between different scales of feature map from different signal sources. Lastly, channel attention was introduced to adaptively alleviate the information correlation and redundancy between the extracted features. Compared with other multisource information–based methods, MHI-SFH automatically solves the multisource feature fusion and information redundancy problems with its specially designed structure, avoiding complicated hand-crafted signal processing steps and achieving a powerful end-to-end intelligent fault diagnosis. The proposed method was experimentally verified on two rolling bearing datasets, and the results proved the feasibility and superiority of the MHI-SFN model.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":49471,"journal":{"name":"Structural Control & Health Monitoring","volume":"2025 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1155/stc/6606543","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143786790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Temperature Monitoring of Mass Concrete Structure Using Wireless Sensing System","authors":"Tengyi Wang, Dan Li, Jiajun Zhou, Jian Zhang","doi":"10.1155/stc/7847074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/stc/7847074","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>Rapid temperature changes during the early stages of mass concrete construction can cause thermal cracking, which negatively impacts structural integrity and longevity. Reliable temperature monitoring is essential for effective crack control. Traditional methods, such as manual inspections and wired structural health monitoring systems, are often hindered by high labor costs and maintenance challenges, limiting their effectiveness for large-scale applications. This paper presents the development of a wireless temperature sensing system designed to overcome these challenges. Both the hardware and software architectures of the wireless sensing unit are detailed. The system is characterized by easy deployment, low power consumption, and long-distance wireless communication, making it suitable for large-scale monitoring of concrete structures. To address data anomalies caused by wireless transmission failures, the sensing system includes robust data anomaly detection and recovery algorithms, ensuring reliable measurements. A prototype system was fabricated and field-tested on a massive concrete structure, validating the effectiveness of the sensing system. The experimental results demonstrate that the wireless temperature sensing system can reliably monitor the temperature distribution of mass concrete structures during construction, providing measurement data for preventing thermal cracking and ensuring structural integrity.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":49471,"journal":{"name":"Structural Control & Health Monitoring","volume":"2025 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1155/stc/7847074","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143770293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Structural Damage Identification Based on Transfer Learning and Power Spectral Density","authors":"Youliang Fang, Chanpeng Li, Jiaxin Li","doi":"10.1155/stc/5224063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/stc/5224063","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>This paper proposes a novel method for structural damage identification that integrates the power spectral density (PSD) of structural acceleration responses with densely connected convolutional networks (DenseNet). The method transforms the training object of the DenseNet into a numerical matrix (PSD matrix) for structural damage identification. Leveraging transfer learning, the DenseNet models are initially trained on simulated data and further fine-tuned using experimental data to enhance robustness and generalization. Results demonstrate that frequency-domain signals processed by PSD significantly enhance model performance, achieving lower mean squared error (MSE), higher Pearson’s correlation coefficient (<i>R</i> value), and reduced mean absolute error (MAE) compared to time-domain signals. The effectiveness of this method was verified on a six-story frame structure. This study underscores the efficacy of transfer learning in bridging the gap between simulated and real-world data, thereby facilitating effective structural health monitoring and damage identification.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":49471,"journal":{"name":"Structural Control & Health Monitoring","volume":"2025 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1155/stc/5224063","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143770439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Generalized Gaussian Distribution Refined Composite Multiscale Fluctuation Dispersion Entropy and Its Application in Fault Diagnosis of Switch Machine","authors":"Deqiang He, Jinxin Wu, Yingqian Sun, Zhenzhen Jin","doi":"10.1155/stc/1806458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/stc/1806458","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>The switch machine (SM) is an important device for turnout conversion, which is of great significance to ensure the safety of train operations. Refined composite multiscale dispersion entropy (RCMDE) is a formidable nonlinear characterization tool for time series signals, which has been applied to the fault diagnosis (FD) of switch machines. In fact, the lack of nonlinear mapping ability of RCMDE and the inability to evaluate the volatility of the SM signal affect its ability to extract features. To overcome its inherent drawbacks, a generalized Gaussian distribution refined composite multiscale fluctuation dispersion entropy (GGRCMFDE) is proposed to measure the complexity of the SM signal. In GGRCMFDE, first, the nonlinear mapping ability of the algorithm is improved by replacing the normal cumulative distribution function (NCDF) with the generalized Gaussian distribution (GGD). The fluctuation theory is introduced to evaluate the fluctuation of the signal to better adapt to the phenomenon of nonperiodic fluctuation of the signal when the SM fails. Through the above improvement, the feature extraction capability of the algorithm is comprehensively enhanced. Second, an FD method for the SM is used by combining the fault features extracted by GGRCMFDE with the support vector machine (SVM) for fault classification. Finally, the algorithm’s performance is guaranteed by improving dung beetle optimization (IDBO) algorithm, and the superiority of the diagnosis method is improved by using IDBO to optimize SVM; we name this method GGRCMFE–IDBO–SVM. It is verified by the actual operation scene experiment of the switch machines. The experiment shows that compared to the other algorithms, the FD impact of GGRCMFE–IDBO–SVM is significant, and a taller fault identification precision can be obtained.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":49471,"journal":{"name":"Structural Control & Health Monitoring","volume":"2025 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1155/stc/1806458","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143770072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"AT-LSTM-CUSUM Digital Intelligent Model for Seepage Safety Prediction of Concrete Dam","authors":"Xinyu Liang, Lizhi Zhang, Jiaqi Zhao","doi":"10.1155/stc/8518538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/stc/8518538","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>Seepage is one of the main causes of dam accidents, characterized by long latency periods and spatiotemporal randomness. In this study, an innovative combined algorithm model (AT-LSTM-CUSUM) is proposed to predict such leakage hazards. First, a long short-term memory (LSTM) network model based on an attention mechanism is established to focus on key influencing factors in predicting the time series data. Following the time series prediction, an improved Cumulative Sum (CUSUM) change-point monitoring algorithm is introduced. Within a sliding window period, a control function collects cumulative residuals, and a threshold test is performed to determine whether a potential hazard trend exists. Using monitoring data from a pressure measuring pipe in a concrete dam as the experimental subject, five related influencing factors were collected (upstream and downstream water levels, temperature, precipitation, and structural aging). These data were fed into the AT-LSTM model for iterative parameter tuning, yielding optimal prediction results. These results were compared with those of the LSTM, GRU, ARIMA, and Prophet models, validating the superior performance of the AT-LSTM model. In addition, by simulating the seepage hazard occurrence process, the change-point monitoring effectiveness of the improved CUSUM algorithm was tested. A parameter sensitivity analysis of the window period and threshold values revealed that the algorithm performed effectively in detecting seepage hazards. The innovative algorithm proposed in this paper exhibits strong early warning capabilities and holds significant value for dam safety monitoring and maintenance.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":49471,"journal":{"name":"Structural Control & Health Monitoring","volume":"2025 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1155/stc/8518538","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143762000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Seyyedbehrad Emadi, Seyedmilad Komarizadehasl, Ye Xia
{"title":"Application of Intelligent Low-Cost Accelerometers for Bridge Monitoring With a Deep Learning Approach","authors":"Seyyedbehrad Emadi, Seyedmilad Komarizadehasl, Ye Xia","doi":"10.1155/stc/9835353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/stc/9835353","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>Despite the crucial role of structural health monitoring (SHM) in ensuring the integrity and safety of essential infrastructure, its adoption is often limited by the high costs of traditional sensors. This study introduces an innovative approach for creating intelligent, high-performing low-cost accelerometers using a deep learning framework rooted in long short–term memory (LSTM) neural networks. Initially, commercial sensors are temporarily installed alongside low-cost accelerometers on a bridge to facilitate the training process. Once the training is complete, the commercial sensors are removed, leaving the calibrated low-cost accelerometers permanently in place to perform continuous SHM tasks. In a case study, a bridge was equipped with an array of six low-cost and six commercial sensors. The efficacy of this innovative approach is corroborated through a comparative analysis of mode shapes and eigenfrequencies derived from both the low-cost and commercial sensors, as well as intelligent low-cost accelerometers.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":49471,"journal":{"name":"Structural Control & Health Monitoring","volume":"2025 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1155/stc/9835353","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143749324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}