Mapping of Temperature-Induced Response Increments for Monitoring Long-Span Steel Truss Arch Bridges Based on Machine Learning
Publication: Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 148, Issue 5
Abstract
Temperature-induced responses have been found to be sensitive to changes in bridge properties. Accordingly, researchers have sought to develop temperature-response mappings that could be used in assessing bridge conditions; to date, obtaining sufficiently precise mappings analytically has proven intractable. Alternatively, numerous researchers have directly developed mappings between temperature and the associated responses using measured data. However, temperature-induced responses are a function of the temperatures throughout the entire bridge, and such spatial temperature distributions using a limited number of sensors are challenging to capture, particularly for steel truss bridges, due to the large number and variety of structural members. Mappings that have been obtained are generally a function of the long-term fluctuations, corresponding to daily variations; the short-term fluctuations (i.e., higher-frequency components) in temperature data are neglected. This paper first proposes that the relationship between increments in temperature and the associated increments in responses can be used as a surrogate to assess the bridge performance. Simulation results show that the statistical distribution of the error between measured and predicted response increments can be used for identifying abnormal structural behavior. Then, various mappings for both displacement and strain increments are explored and verified using field monitoring data. The mapping with all temperature sensors performs the best; principal component analysis (PCA) can effectively reduce the dimension of input without compromising accuracy. In addition, the recorded time of temperature data is validated to be a useful indicator of the spatial temperature distribution in bridges, which can be used to improve the performance of the mappings when the bridge has only a few temperature sensors. These findings provide an improved approach for mapping the relationship between increments in temperature to increments in temperature-induced responses that shows promise for identifying abnormal bridge behavior.
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The relevant data, models, and code used for this study can be made available by the corresponding author upon request.
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to gratefully acknowledge the supports from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51722804 and 51978155), the National Ten Thousand Talent Program for Young Top-notch Talents (Grant No. W03070080), the Postgraduate Research and Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province (Grant No. KYCX19_0095), and the CSC Scholarship (Grant No. CSC201906090075).
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Received: Jun 28, 2021
Accepted: Dec 22, 2021
Published online: Feb 26, 2022
Published in print: May 1, 2022
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