Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE
Volume 17, Issue 1, Pages 147-169Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/15583058.2022.2134062
Keywords
Crack patterns; deep neural network; machine learning; masonry structure; regression; similarity measure
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This paper proposes an automated approach using Siamese convolutional neural networks (SCNN) to predict crack pattern similarities that correlate well with assessment by structural engineers.
This paper proposes an automated approach to predict crack pattern similarities that correlate well with assessment by structural engineers. We use Siamese convolutional neural networks (SCNN) that take two crack pattern images as inputs and output scalar similarity measures. We focus on 2D masonry facades with and without openings. The image pairs are generated using a statistics-based approach and labelled by 28 structural engineering experts. When the data is randomly split into fit and test data, the SCNNs can achieve good performance on the test data (R-2 approximate to 0.9). When the SCNNs are tested on unseen archetypes, their test R-2 values are on average 1% lower than the case where all archetypes are seen during the training. These very good results indicate that SCNNs can generalise to unseen cases without compromising their performance. Although the analyses are restricted to the considered synthetic images, the results are promising and the approach is general.
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