Abstract
The protection of critical engineering infrastructures is vital to today’s society, not only to ensure the maintenance of their services (e.g., water supply, energy production, transport), but also to avoid large-scale disasters. Therefore, technical and financial efforts are being continuously made to improve the safety control of large civil engineering structures like dams, bridges and nuclear facilities. This control is based on the measurement of physical quantities that characterize the structural behavior, such as displacements, strains and stresses. The analysis of monitoring data and its evaluation against physical and mathematical models is the strongest tool to assess the safety of the structural behavior. Commonly, dam specialists use multiple linear regression models to analyze the dam response, which is a well-known approach among dam engineers since the 1950s decade. Nowadays, the data acquisition paradigm is changing from a manual process, where measurements were taken with low frequency (e.g., on a weekly basis), to a fully automated process that allows much higher frequencies. This new paradigm escalates the potential of data analytics on top of monitoring data, but, on the other hand, increases data quality issues related to anomalies in the acquisition process. This chapter presents the full data lifecycle in the safety control of large-scale civil engineering infrastructures (focused on dams), from the data acquisition process, data processing and storage, data quality and outlier detection, and data analysis. A strong focus is made on the use of machine learning techniques for data analysis, where the common multiple linear regression analysis is compared with deep learning strategies, namely recurrent neural networks. Demonstration scenarios are presented based on data obtained from monitoring systems of concrete dams under operation in Portugal.
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Inspections are either of a routine nature, or may follow unusual occurrences, such as earthquakes or large floods.
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Laboratory and in situ tests, and long term monitoring are used to measure changes in structural properties, actions, and their effects and consequences.
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A transducer is a device that converts any type of energy into another.
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New developments must take into account that dam safety is a continuous requirement due to the potential risk in terms of environmental, social and economical disasters.
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Rico, J., Barateiro, J., Mata, J., Antunes, A., Cardoso, E. (2019). Applying Advanced Data Analytics and Machine Learning to Enhance the Safety Control of Dams. In: Tsihrintzis, G., Virvou, M., Sakkopoulos, E., Jain, L. (eds) Machine Learning Paradigms. Learning and Analytics in Intelligent Systems, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15628-2_10
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