
ISSN: 2960-2025 (Print)
ISSN: 2960-2033 (Online)
CODEN: SCABAK
CiteScore 2025: 1.5
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Monitoring-data-driven reliability assessment of bridge infrastructure uses structural health monitoring, inspection, load testing, bridge weigh-in-motion, visual/non-destructive testing (NDT) data and digital twins to characterize evolving condition and failure risk. This review asks how monitoring data are transformed into reliability inputs, how model updating methods complement one another, how limited data support time-dependent reliability and rare-event estimation, and how updated reliability supports maintenance decisions. A Scopus-based search of English journal papers published from 2020 through the 30 June 2026 search cutoff was conducted using keywords on bridges, monitoring data, model updating, reliability/risk assessment and maintenance. After thematic screening, 114 papers were coded and critically synthesized, comprising 56 core bridge studies and 58 supplementary studies retained only for method transfer or comparison. The review establishes a technical chain from monitoring data to structural state characterization, model updating, uncertainty quantification, reliability/risk assessment and maintenance decision-making, and formulates a probabilistic framework based on observation models, state/parameter updating, posterior predictive reliability and risk- and loss-based decision-making. The findings show that finite-element updating contributes physical interpretability, Bayesian updating supports evidence fusion and posterior uncertainty, filtering enables online recursion, surrogate modelling and machine learning reduce computational burden, and digital twins are meaningful only when data assimilation, uncertainty propagation, reliability calculation and decision feedback are integrated. Future work should strengthen traceable data-to-limit-state mappings, explicit treatment of model-form and measurement errors, tail failure-probability estimation under sparse monitoring data, and closed-loop reliability-informed bridge maintenance.
Unsafe conditions of objects are major contributors to construction accidents such as falls, strikes, and collapses. Although traditional inspections and existing vision methods can detect objects, they often fail to infer their potential risks. To overcome this limitation, this paper proposes a deep identification method integrating visual attribute representations. We introduce the high-level concept of visual unsafe attributes to describe hazards arising from an object’s shape, state, and environmental context. Based on accident text analysis, a visual attribute system covering four risk types—fall, strike, collapse, and rollover—is established, and the VALD dataset is built by extending SODA dataset. An integrated detection framework based on YOLOv11 is then developed to achieve end-to-end joint inference of object locations and unsafe attributes. The model is trained and evaluated on VALD. Experiments show mAP@50 of 84.8%, recall of 91%, and F1-score of 0.82, with improvements of 21.1%, 33.6%, and 0.175 over models without attention mechanisms. These results demonstrate that visual attribute representation and attention significantly enhance risk feature extraction. The resulting dynamic risk assessment system quantifies object-strike scenarios spatiotemporally, providing a real-time and interpretable safety monitoring solution for construction sites.
This study еxрlоrеs thе dеvеlорmеnt оf sustаinаblе, еаrth-bаsеd building mаtеriаls thаt hаvе bееn орtimizеd using а duаl аррrоасh invоlving аlkаlinе stаbilizаtiоn аnd rеinfоrсеmеnt with lосаlly sоurсеd nаturаl fibеrs, resulting in composite materials with enhanced thermomechanical properties. Thе аim is tо еnhаnсе thе mесhаniсаl аnd thermophysical performance оf соmрrеssеd еаrth briсks whilе minimizing thе еnvirоnmеntаl imрасt оf thе соnstruсtiоn industry. Sоil frоm sоuth-еаstеrn Mоrоссо wаs сhеmiсаlly stаbilizеd аnd mixеd with vаrying реrсеntаgеs (0%–8%) оf lignосеllulоsiс fibеrs (реtiоlе, fig trее, аnd аlfа). Exреrimеntаl rеsults shоwеd а rеduсtiоn in bulk dеnsity оf uр tо 30%, lеаding to significant improvements in thеrmаl insulаtiоn, with minimum thеrmаl соnduсtivitiеs оf 0.32 W m⁻¹ K⁻¹ fоr fig trее аnd 0.50 W m⁻¹ K⁻¹ fоr аlfа. Іn tеrms оf mесhаniсs, сrасk bridging wаs оbsеrvеd tо hаvе а rеinfоrсing еffесt, with орtimаl соmрrеssivе strеngth (6.4 MPа) аnd tеnsilе strеngth (1.8 MPа) асhiеvеd аt fibеr соntеnts bеtwееn 2% аnd 3%. This synеrgy bеtwееn stаbilizаtiоn аnd biо-rеinfоrсеmеnt рrоvidеs аn есо-еffiсiеnt, high-реrfоrmаnсе, аnd есоnоmiсаlly viаblе соnstruсtiоn sоlutiоn thаt is раrtiсulаrly wеll-suitеd tо thе сlimаtiс соnditiоns of arid and semi ardi regions.
Structural computational analysis in civil engineering increasingly demands efficient, robust, and physics-aware methodologies capable of addressing non-Euclidean geometries, history-dependent behaviors, and multi-scale problems that remain challenging for conventional numerical approaches. Recent advances in frontier artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have shown promising potential to overcome these limitations. This paper presents a comprehensive review of frontier AI applications in computational structural analysis from 2020 to 2025, focusing on graph neural networks (GNNs), sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) and Transformer-based architectures, and physics-informed methods. We synthesize fundamental concepts, typical model variants, and representative applications across diverse tasks, including constitutive modeling, static and dynamic structural analysis, data reconstruction, and parameter inversion. Furthermore, we identify critical research gaps and discuss potential future directions within each model family. A quantitative analysis of the reviewed studies is conducted, categorizing them by publication year, application task, and adopted model type. Common challenges regarding benchmarking, empirical–physics trade-offs, scalability and generalizability are summarized. Finally, we highlight several promising techniques for advancing intelligent structural computation and promoting practical engineering deployment.