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ReviewSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Unsupervised Learning Methods for Data-Driven Vibration-Based Structural Health Monitoring: A Review.

Kareem Eltouny, Mohamed Gomaa, Xiao Liang

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Review in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Kareem EltounyDepartment of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3918-2297
Mohamed GomaaDepartment of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA.ORCID 0009-0009-5465-6631
Xiao LiangDepartment of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4788-8759

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Structural damage detection using unsupervised learning methods has been a trending topic in the structural health monitoring (SHM) research community during the past decades. In the context of SHM, unsupervised learning methods rely only on data acquired from intact structures for training the statistical models. Consequently, they are often seen as more practical than their supervised counterpart in implementing an early-warning damage detection system in civil structures. In this article, we review publications on data-driven structural health monitoring from the last decade that relies on unsupervised learning methods with a focus on real-world application and practicality. Novelty detection using vibration data is by far the most common approach for unsupervised learning SHM and is, therefore, given more attention in this article. Following a brief introduction, we present the state-of-the-art studies in unsupervised-learning SHM, categorized by the types of used machine-learning methods. We then examine the benchmarks that are commonly used to validate unsupervised-learning SHM methods. We also discuss the main challenges and limitations in the existing literature that make it difficult to translate SHM methods from research to practical applications. Accordingly, we outline the current knowledge gaps and provide recommendations for future directions to assist researchers in developing more reliable SHM methods.

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anomaly detectiondamage detectiondeep learningmachine learningneural networksnovelty detectionoutlier analysisstructural health monitoringunsupervised learningvibration-based methods

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PMID36992001
PMCPMC10058635

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