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Title: Experimental Study on Digital Image Correlation for Deep Learning-Based Damage Diagnostic
Large quantities of data which contain detailed condition information over an extended period of time should be utilized to prioritize infrastructure repairs. As the temporal and spatial resolution of monitoring data drastically increase by advances in sensing technology, structural health monitoring applications reach the thresholds of big data. Deep neural networks are ideally suited to use large representative training datasets to learn complex damage features. In the previous study of authors, a real-time deep learning platform was developed to solve damage detection and localization challenge. The network was trained by using simulated structural connection mimicking the real test object with a variety of loading cases, damage scenarios, and measurement noise levels for successful and robust diagnosis of damage. In this study, the proposed damage diagnosis platform is validated by using temporally and spatially dense data collected by Digital Image Correlation (DIC) from the specimen. Laboratory testing of the specimen with induced damage condition is performed to evaluate the performance and efficiency of damage detection and localization approach.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1618717
PAR ID:
10110701
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics
Volume:
1
ISSN:
1046-6789
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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