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Introduction to ‘Artificial intelligence in failure analysis of transportation infrastructure and materials'

Yue Hou Orcid Logo, Qiao Dong Orcid Logo, Dawei Wang Orcid Logo, Jenny Liu Orcid Logo

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Volume: 381, Issue: 2254

Swansea University Author: Yue Hou Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1098/rsta.2022.0177

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Transportation infrastructures, including roads, bridges, tunnels, stations, airports and subways, play fundamental roles in modern society. Engineering failures of transportation infrastructures may result in significant damage to the public. The traditional methods are to monitor, store and analys...

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Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
ISSN: 1364-503X 1471-2962
Published: The Royal Society 2023
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa63916
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Abstract: Transportation infrastructures, including roads, bridges, tunnels, stations, airports and subways, play fundamental roles in modern society. Engineering failures of transportation infrastructures may result in significant damage to the public. The traditional methods are to monitor, store and analyse the information during the infrastructure and material design, testing, construction, numerical simulations, evaluation, operation, maintenance and preservation, using mechanistic-based, material-based and statistics-based approaches. In recent decades, artificial intelligence (AI) has drawn the attention of many researchers and has been used as a powerful tool to understand and analyse the engineering failures in transportation infrastructure and materials. AI has the advantages of conveniently characterizing infrastructure materials in multi-scale, extracting failure information from images and cloud points, evaluating performance from the signals of sensors, predicting the long-term performance of infrastructure based on big data and optimizing infrastructure maintenance strategies, etc. In the future, AI techniques will be more effective and promising for data collection, transmission, fusion, mining and analysis, which will help engineers quickly detect, analyse and finally prevent the engineering failures of transportation infrastructure and materials. This theme issue presents the latest developments of AI in failure analysis of transportation infrastructure and materials.
Keywords: Transportation infrastructure, failure analysis, artificial intelligence
College: Faculty of Science and Engineering
Funders: Swansea University
Issue: 2254