Zihang Weng, Chenglong Liu, Yuchuan Du, Difei Wu, Zhen Leng
The pavement skid resistance is crucial for ensuring driving safety. However, the reproducibility and comparability of field measurements are constrained by various influencing factors. One solution to these constraints is utilizing laser‐based 3D pavement data, which are notably stable and can be employed to estimate pavement skid resistance indirectly. However, the integration of tire–road friction mechanisms and deep neural networks has not been fully studied. This study employed spatial‐channel attention mechanisms to integrate frictional domain knowledge and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) that predict the friction coefficient as the output. The models’ inputs include 3D texture data, corresponding finite element (FE) simulation outcomes, and 2D wavelet decomposition outcomes. An additional spatial attention (ASA) mechanism guided the CNNs to focus on the tire–road contact region, using tire–road contact stress from FE simulation as domain knowledge. Multi‐scale channel attention (MSCA) mechanisms enabled the CNNs to learn the channel weights of 2D‐wavelet‐based multi‐scale inputs, thereby assessing the contribution of different texture scales to tire–road friction. A multi‐attention and feature fusion mechanism was designed, and the performances of various combinations were compared. The results showed that the fusion of ASA and MSCA achieved the best performance, with a regression R2 of 0.8470, which was a 20.25% improvement over the baseline model.
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Rock quality designation (RQD) plays a crucial role in the design and analysis of rock engineering. The traditional method of measuring RQD relies on manual logging by geologists, which is often labor‐intensive and time‐consuming. Thus, this study presents an autonomous framework for expeditious RQD estimation based on two‐dimensional corebox photographs. The scale‐invariant feature transform (SIFT) algorithm is employed for rapid image calibration. A K‐Net‐based model with dynamic semantic kernels, conditional on their actual activations, is proposed for rock core segmentation. It surpasses other prevalent models with a mean intersection over union of 95.43%. The automatic RQD estimation error of our proposed framework is only 1.46% compared to manual logging results, demonstrating its exceptional reliability and effectiveness. The robustness of the framework is then validated on an additional test set, proving its potential for widespread adoption in geotechnical engineering practice.
{"title":"A K‐Net‐based deep learning framework for automatic rock quality designation estimation","authors":"Sihao Yu, Louis Ngai Yuen Wong","doi":"10.1111/mice.13386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/mice.13386","url":null,"abstract":"Rock quality designation (RQD) plays a crucial role in the design and analysis of rock engineering. The traditional method of measuring RQD relies on manual logging by geologists, which is often labor‐intensive and time‐consuming. Thus, this study presents an autonomous framework for expeditious RQD estimation based on two‐dimensional corebox photographs. The scale‐invariant feature transform (SIFT) algorithm is employed for rapid image calibration. A K‐Net‐based model with dynamic semantic kernels, conditional on their actual activations, is proposed for rock core segmentation. It surpasses other prevalent models with a mean intersection over union of 95.43%. The automatic RQD estimation error of our proposed framework is only 1.46% compared to manual logging results, demonstrating its exceptional reliability and effectiveness. The robustness of the framework is then validated on an additional test set, proving its potential for widespread adoption in geotechnical engineering practice.","PeriodicalId":156,"journal":{"name":"Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering","volume":"95 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.775,"publicationDate":"2024-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142797167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. G. Fragkoulis, F. N. Koumboulis, M. P. Tzamtzi, P. G. Totomis
An event-based supervisory control scheme, in the Ramdage–Wonham framework, will be proposed for the cyber-physical Waterway Lock system, known as Lock III, in Tilburg, the Netherlands. The proposed control scheme imposes desired behavior, by appropriately disabling controllable events, so as to avoid activation of actuator commands that may lead to undesired and potentially hazardous operating states. The discrete event model of the total Waterway Lock system, comprising 54 actuator and sensor automata, will be presented in analytic 6-tuple forms of its subsystems. The system's desired behavior, which is expressed using six rules, will be formulated as 84 regular and prefix closed languages that will be realized as appropriate supervisor automata. All supervisors are developed by a general two-state supervisor form, which facilitates their implementation. A distributed control architecture will be proposed, which organizes all supervisors in distinct groups, each of which controls one and only one distinct command event. The complexity of the proposed control scheme will be computed to be equal to (168,324,564), being reasonable, as compared to the large number of subsystems and the restrictive design requirements. The physical realizability of the 84 supervisors, with respect to the 54 subsystems of the waterway lock system, will be proved analytically. Also, it will be proved analytically that the proposed supervisor architecture guarantees the nonblocking property of the controlled automaton, including all subsystems. The establishment of these analytic proofs supports the extendibility of the results to other applications. To demonstrate the resulting large-scale controlled automaton's good performance, its marked behavior and simulation results will be presented.
{"title":"Event-based supervisor control for a cyber-physical waterway lock system","authors":"D. G. Fragkoulis, F. N. Koumboulis, M. P. Tzamtzi, P. G. Totomis","doi":"10.1111/mice.13393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/mice.13393","url":null,"abstract":"An event-based supervisory control scheme, in the Ramdage–Wonham framework, will be proposed for the cyber-physical Waterway Lock system, known as Lock III, in Tilburg, the Netherlands. The proposed control scheme imposes desired behavior, by appropriately disabling controllable events, so as to avoid activation of actuator commands that may lead to undesired and potentially hazardous operating states. The discrete event model of the total Waterway Lock system, comprising 54 actuator and sensor automata, will be presented in analytic 6-tuple forms of its subsystems. The system's desired behavior, which is expressed using six rules, will be formulated as 84 regular and prefix closed languages that will be realized as appropriate supervisor automata. All supervisors are developed by a general two-state supervisor form, which facilitates their implementation. A distributed control architecture will be proposed, which organizes all supervisors in distinct groups, each of which controls one and only one distinct command event. The complexity of the proposed control scheme will be computed to be equal to (168,324,564), being reasonable, as compared to the large number of subsystems and the restrictive design requirements. The physical realizability of the 84 supervisors, with respect to the 54 subsystems of the waterway lock system, will be proved analytically. Also, it will be proved analytically that the proposed supervisor architecture guarantees the nonblocking property of the controlled automaton, including all subsystems. The establishment of these analytic proofs supports the extendibility of the results to other applications. To demonstrate the resulting large-scale controlled automaton's good performance, its marked behavior and simulation results will be presented.","PeriodicalId":156,"journal":{"name":"Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.775,"publicationDate":"2024-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142793159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Accurate soil stratification is essential for geotechnical engineering design. Owing to its effectiveness and efficiency, the cone penetration test (CPT) has been widely applied for subsurface stratigraphy, which relies heavily on empiricism for correlations to soil type. Recently, deep learning techniques have shown great promise in learning the relationship between CPT data and soil boundaries automatically. However, the segmentation of soil boundaries is fraught with model and measurement uncertainty. This paper introduces an uncertainty-guided U((-Net (UGU-Net) for improved soil boundary segmentation. The UGU-Net consists of three parts: (a) a Bayesian U-Net to predict a pixel-level uncertainty map, (b) reinforcement of original labels on the basis of the predicted uncertainty map, and (c) a traditional deterministic U-Net, which is applied to the reinforced labels for final soil boundary segmentation. The results show that the proposed UGU-Net outperforms the existing methods in terms of both high accuracy and low uncertainty. A sensitivity study is also conducted to explore the influence of key model parameters on model performance. The proposed method is validated by comparing the predicted subsurface profile with benchmark profiles. The code for this project is available at github.com/Xiaoqi-Zhou-suda/UGU-Net.
{"title":"Uncertainty-guided U-Net for soil boundary segmentation using Monte Carlo dropout","authors":"X. Zhou, B. Sheil, S. Suryasentana, P. Shi","doi":"10.1111/mice.13396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/mice.13396","url":null,"abstract":"Accurate soil stratification is essential for geotechnical engineering design. Owing to its effectiveness and efficiency, the cone penetration test (CPT) has been widely applied for subsurface stratigraphy, which relies heavily on empiricism for correlations to soil type. Recently, deep learning techniques have shown great promise in learning the relationship between CPT data and soil boundaries automatically. However, the segmentation of soil boundaries is fraught with model and measurement uncertainty. This paper introduces an uncertainty-guided U((-Net (UGU-Net) for improved soil boundary segmentation. The UGU-Net consists of three parts: (a) a Bayesian U-Net to predict a pixel-level uncertainty map, (b) reinforcement of original labels on the basis of the predicted uncertainty map, and (c) a traditional deterministic U-Net, which is applied to the reinforced labels for final soil boundary segmentation. The results show that the proposed UGU-Net outperforms the existing methods in terms of both high accuracy and low uncertainty. A sensitivity study is also conducted to explore the influence of key model parameters on model performance. The proposed method is validated by comparing the predicted subsurface profile with benchmark profiles. The code for this project is available at github.com/Xiaoqi-Zhou-suda/UGU-Net.","PeriodicalId":156,"journal":{"name":"Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.775,"publicationDate":"2024-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142793160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Danilo D'Angela, Gennaro Magliulo, Chiara Di Salvatore, Edoardo Cosenza
The structural response of reinforced concrete dapped-end beams is simulated through finite element analysis. The case study consists in experimental tests performed in the framework of an Italian research project on bridges. The study assesses both the local and global behavior of the beam and characterizes the damage patterns. A blind prediction is initially performed inputting the main basic material and geometrical properties of the specimen. Further models are developed by varying several structural parameters and modeling/analysis features, assessing their influence on the structural capacity and response of the beams. The blind model yielded relatively accurate behavior and capacity estimations. Additionally, the modeling is enhanced by accounting for experimental data. Technical and operative guidelines for implementing the numerical analysis of dapped-end beams are finally provided, in light of the critical assessment of the modeling and analysis results.
{"title":"Computational modeling of reinforced concrete dapped-end beams","authors":"Danilo D'Angela, Gennaro Magliulo, Chiara Di Salvatore, Edoardo Cosenza","doi":"10.1111/mice.13390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/mice.13390","url":null,"abstract":"The structural response of reinforced concrete dapped-end beams is simulated through finite element analysis. The case study consists in experimental tests performed in the framework of an Italian research project on bridges. The study assesses both the local and global behavior of the beam and characterizes the damage patterns. A blind prediction is initially performed inputting the main basic material and geometrical properties of the specimen. Further models are developed by varying several structural parameters and modeling/analysis features, assessing their influence on the structural capacity and response of the beams. The blind model yielded relatively accurate behavior and capacity estimations. Additionally, the modeling is enhanced by accounting for experimental data. Technical and operative guidelines for implementing the numerical analysis of dapped-end beams are finally provided, in light of the critical assessment of the modeling and analysis results.","PeriodicalId":156,"journal":{"name":"Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering","volume":"66 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.775,"publicationDate":"2024-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142763340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The cover image is based on the Article Crack pattern-based machine learning prediction of residual drift capacity in damaged masonry walls by Mauricio Pereira et al., https://doi.org/10.1111/mice.13212.