Recently, structural health monitoring (SHM) methods for civil structures have been investigated widely, especially Deep Learning (DL)-based methods. However, it is usually difficult to fully train a deep neural network, and thus, typical DL-based SHM methods are limited in terms of performance. While addressing these issues, in this paper, a novel methodology is proposed for smart damage identification of frame structures. The newly proposed SHM method is based on raw time-domain structural response signals and deep residual network (DRN). The introduced DRN algorithm has been designed and tested in an effective way for extracting and learning the optimum features of the 1D raw ambient vibration acceleration signals, without any need for engineered features. Also, the network’s performance has been optimized using Bayesian optimization, which clearly enhances the network’s accuracy and information flow across it. Next, the outputs of DRNs are further utilized through new methods for damage size estimation and damage localization. The proposed methodology has been evaluated using the datasets of numerical and experimental frames of the SHM benchmark problem and the dataset of a real-world full-scale truss bridge. The results show that the proposed method is capable of detecting, localizing, and quantifying structural damage accurately for all of the simulated cases of the two examples. Furthermore, conducted comparison studies have approved that the new approach is more efficient than other machine learning-based methods, and it can overcome the major limitations of Artificial intelligence-based SHM models.
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