A Method for Detecting Pathologies in Concrete Structures Using Deep Neural Networks

Autor: Joel de Conceição Nogueira Diniz, Anselmo Cardoso de Paiva, Geraldo Braz Junior, João Dallyson Sousa de Almeida, Aristofanes Correa Silva, António Manuel Trigueiros da Silva Cunha, Sandra Cristina Alves Pereira da Silva Cunha
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Applied Sciences, Vol 13, Iss 9, p 5763 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2076-3417
DOI: 10.3390/app13095763
Popis: Pathologies in concrete structures, such as cracks, splintering, efflorescence, corrosion spots, and exposed steel bars, can be visually evidenced on the concrete surface. This paper proposes a method for automatically detecting these pathologies from images of the concrete structure. The proposed method uses deep neural networks to detect pathologies in these images. This method results in time savings and error reduction. The paper presents results in detecting the pathologies from wide-angle images containing the overall structure and also for the specific pathology identification task for cropped images of the region of the pathology. Identifying pathologies in cropped images, the classification task could be performed with 99.4% accuracy using cross-validation and classifying cracks. Wide images containing no, one, or several pathologies in the same image, the case of pathology detection, could be analyzed with the YOLO network to identify five pathology classes. The results for detection with YOLO were measured with mAP, mean Average Precision, for five classes of concrete pathology, reaching 11.80% for fissure, 19.22% for fragmentation, 5.62% for efflorescence, 27.24% for exposed bar, and 24.44% for corrosion. Pathology identification in concrete photos can be optimized using deep learning.
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