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The accurate and efficient prediction of crack propagation in dielectric materials is a critical challenge in structural health monitoring and the design of smart systems. This work presents a hybrid modeling framework that combines an…

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Subsurface defects such as delamination, voids, and honeycombing critically affect the durability of concrete bridge decks but are difficult to detect reliably using visual inspection or manual sounding. This paper presents a machine…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-27 Yeswanth Ravichandran , Duoduo Liao , Charan Teja Kurakula

This paper presents a few comprehensive experimental studies for automated Structural Damage Detection (SDD) in extreme events using deep learning methods for processing 2D images. In the first study, a 152-layer Residual network (ResNet)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Yongsheng Bai , Bing Zha , Halil Sezen , Alper Yilmaz

Damage detection in active-sensing, guided-waves-based Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) has evolved through multiple eras of development during the past decades. Nevertheless, there still exists a number of challenges facing the current…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-29 Ahmad Amer , Fotis Kopsaftopoulos

Electronic Health Records (EHR) systematically organize patient health data through standardized medical codes, serving as a comprehensive and invaluable source for predictive modeling. Graph neural networks (GNNs) have demonstrated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Haiyan Wang , Ye Yuan

Near real-time damage diagnosis of building structures after extreme events (e.g., earthquakes) is of great importance in structural health monitoring. Unlike conventional methods that are usually time-consuming and require human expertise,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-25 Seyed Omid Sajedi , Xiao Liang

Data loss in Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) networks has recently become one of the main challenges for engineers. Therefore, a data recovery method for SHM, generally an expensive procedure, is essential. Lately, some techniques…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Pouya Moeinifard , Mohammad Sadra Rajabi , Maryam Bitaraf

Empirical Mode Decomposition is an adaptive and local tool that extracts underlying analytical components of a non-linear and non-stationary process, in turn, is the basis of Hilbert Huang transform, however, there are problems such as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-30 Roberto Hernández Santander , Esperanza Camargo Casallas

Recognizing seismic waves immediately is very important for the realization of efficient disaster prevention. Generally these systems consist of a network of seismic detectors that send real time data to a central server. The server…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Ruggero Micheletto , Ahyi Kim

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is increasingly used in civil engineering. One of its main purposes is to detect and assess changes in infrastructure conditions to reduce possible maintenance downtime and increase safety. Ideally, this…

Applications · Statistics 2024-06-04 Philipp Wittenberg , Sven Knoth , Jan Gertheiss

In this study, we present an artificial neural network (ANN)-based approach for travel-time tomography of a volcanic edifice. We employ ray tracing to simulate the propagation of seismic waves through the heterogeneous medium of a volcanic…

Structural health monitoring (SHM) is essential for ensuring the safety and longevity of infrastructure, but complex image environments, noisy labels, and reliance on manual damage assessments often hinder its effectiveness. This study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Isaac Osei Agyemang , Isaac Adjei-Mensah , Daniel Acheampong , Gordon Owusu Boateng , Adu Asare Baffour

This study explores the limitations of image-based structural health monitoring (SHM) techniques in detecting structural damage. Leveraging machine learning and computer vision, image-based SHM offers a scalable and efficient alternative to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Vagelis Plevris

Surface damage on concrete is important as the damage can affect the structural integrity of the structure. This paper proposes a two-step surface damage detection scheme using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Artificial Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Alice Yi Yang , Ling Cheng

Structural health monitoring (SHM) ensures the safety and longevity of structures such as aerospace equipment and wind power installations. Developing a simple, highly flexible, and scalable SHM method that does not depend on baseline…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yunlai Liao , Yihan Wang , Chen Fang , Xin Yang , Xianping Zeng , Dimitrios Chronopoulos , Xinlin Qing

The global trends in the construction of modern structures require the integration of sensors together with data recording and analysis modules so that their integrity can be continuously monitored for safe-life, economic and ecological…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 M-A Torres-Arredondo , Julián Sierra-Pérez , Guénaël Cabanes

We introduce the Probability Navigation Architecture (PNA) framework, which treats neural computation as navigation through a probability manifold governed by thermodynamic principles. We train State Space Models (SSMs) and Transformers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Jay Noon

Guided wave-based structural health monitoring (SHM) remains a powerful strategy for identifying early-stage defects and safeguarding vital aerospace structures. Yet, its practical use is often hindered by the enormous, high-dimensional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Yiming Fan , Dimitris G Giovanis , Fotis Kopsaftopoulos

Post-earthquake recovery of electric power networks (EPNs) is critical to community resilience. Traditional recovery processes often rely on prolonged and imprecise manual inspections for damage diagnosis, leading to suboptimal repair…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Huangbin Liang , Beatriz Moya , Francisco Chinesta , Eleni Chatzi

Since Huang proposed the Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) in 1998, mode decomposition has been widely studied, but EMD and relative developed algorithms are still generally lack of adaptability and mathematical theory. This paper propose…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-27 Hu Yiting , Wu Zhuangzhi