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Onur Avci, Osama Abdeljaber, Serkan Kiranyaz, Mohammed Hussein, Moncef Gabbouj, Daniel J. Inman

This review paper examines the progression of vibration-based structural damage detection in civil structures, tracing its evolution from traditional methods to modern machine learning and deep learning applications. It concludes that deep learning, particularly 1D Convolutional Neural Networks, provides superior performance by automatically learning features from raw sensor data, enabling efficient and accurate real-time damage localization.

Key insights

• Traditional vibration-based methods, while foundational, face limitations in civil applications due to structural scale, environmental variability, and the challenge of explicit modal parameter identification.
• Conventional Machine Learning improves upon traditional methods but is heavily dependent on labor-intensive, hand-crafted feature extraction, which lacks universality and can be computationally expensive.
• Deep Learning, particularly 1D Convolutional Neural Networks, overcomes these limitations by autonomously learning optimal damage-sensitive features directly from raw vibration data, integrating feature extraction and classification into a single, efficient process.

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