Affiliation:
1. Politecnico di Milano, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Via La Masa n.1, 20156 Milan, Italy
Abstract
Structural health monitoring (SHM) has become paramount for developing cheaper and more reliable maintenance policies. The advantages coming from adopting such process have turned out to be particularly evident when dealing with plated structures. In this context, state-of-the-art methods are based on exciting and acquiring ultrasonic-guided waves through a permanently installed sensor network. A baseline is registered when the structure is healthy, and newly acquired signals are compared to it to detect, localize, and quantify damage. To this purpose, the performance of traditional methods has been overcome by data-driven approaches, which allow processing a larger amount of data without losing diagnostic information. However, to date, no diagnostic method can deal with varying environmental and operational conditions (EOCs). This work aims to present a proof-of-concept that state-of-the-art machine learning methods can be used for reducing the impact of EOCs on the performance of damage diagnosis methods. Generative artificial intelligence was leveraged to mitigate the impact of temperature variations on ultrasonic guided wave-based SHM. Specifically, variational autoencoders and singular value decomposition were combined to learn the influence of temperature on guided waves. After training, the generative part of the algorithm was used to reconstruct signals at new unseen temperatures. Moreover, a refined version of the algorithm called forced variational autoencoder was introduced to further improve the reconstruction capabilities. The accuracy of the proposed framework was demonstrated against real measurements on a composite plate.
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