Affiliation:
1. Dresden University of Technology Dresden Germany
2. Oxford University Oxford UK
3. University of Patras Patras Greece
4. University of Massachusetts Amherst Amherst MA USA
Abstract
AbstractCorrosion poses a significant threat to the longevity of steel bridges, impacting overall structural integrity. To effectively assess the structural condition of corroded steel bridges, conventional methods rely on visual inspections or single point measurements. To enhance and modernize this approach, this study introduces a novel framework integrating laser scanning data, computational models, and convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The CNN models are trained on a data set consisting of more than 1400 artificial corrosion scenarios generated by parameterizing real scan data from naturally corroded girders. This innovative method predicts the residual capacity and failure mode of corroded beam ends, achieving a low error rate of up to 3.3%. Unlike established evaluation procedures, the proposed evaluation framework directly utilizes post‐processed laser scanner output, eliminating the need for feature extraction and calculations.
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