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Transfer learning-based artificial neural networks for hysteresis response prediction of steel braces

2025· article· en· W4409694615 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueComputers & Structures · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicStructural Health Monitoring Techniques
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaUniversity of AlbertaCanadian Institute of Steel Construction
KeywordsArtificial neural networkHysteresisTransfer of learningComputer scienceStructural engineeringArtificial intelligenceEngineeringMaterials sciencePhysics

Abstract

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• Proposed a novel data-driven model to predict hysteresis response of steel braces. • Used transfer learning with pre-trained baseline LSTM networks for improved performance. • Validated the model using four case studies with experimental and synthetic data. • Applied model in a pseudo-dynamic analysis of a steel braced frame. • Model accurately estimates displacement-force relationship in steel braces. This paper proposes a novel data-driven surrogate model for predicting the hysteresis response, i.e., axial force – axial deformation, of steel braces in concentrically braced frames under seismic loading using transfer learning-based artificial neural networks. Transfer learning is utilized to leverage pre-trained baseline long short-term memory networks and transfer its knowledge to the new hysteresis surrogate model. The proposed model is validated using four case studies involving various combinations of input data obtained from laboratory tests and data generated using random earthquake-induced vibration, featuring a wide range of frequency contents, amplitudes, and durations. A pseudo-dynamic analysis is then performed on a steel braced frame system to demonstrate the application of the proposed surrogate model in system-level response evaluation while verifying the performance of the model in real-time seismic simulations. The results obtained from the validation study confirm that the proposed brace hysteresis model can properly estimate the underlying physical relationship between the input displacement and output force using the transfer learning approach. The proposed model offers an efficient method to evaluate the dynamic response of steel braced frames.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

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metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.207
Threshold uncertainty score0.809

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Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.268
Teacher spread0.252 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it