Structural seismic response reconstruction method based on multidomain feature-guided generative adversarial neural networks

Abstract Structural seismic response reconstruction is important to assess the safety of structures. This study presents a novel multidomain feature-guided generative adversarial neural network model (MWGAN-TF) for reconstructing the seismic responses of structures, which takes into account the joint non-stationarity of the seismic response in the time-frequency statistical domain. It innovatively incorporates time, frequency, and statistical-domain feature constraints into the multiscale generative adversarial neural network, which guides the model to learn the multidomain feature information of the seismic response at different time scales. A statistical indicator (CNCSI) was proposed to evaluate the performance of the model in capturing nonstationary characteristics. The effectiveness of the MWGAN-TF was verified using response data from numerical models of a three-story moment-resisting frame and reinforced concrete frame structures, as well as the field measurement data of an actual building. Thereafter, the effects of different domain feature-guided models on the reconstruction response accuracy are discussed. The results show that embedding multidomain feature constraints can provide a more reliable response reconstruction by improving the ability of the model to capture nonstationary characteristics. Thus, the deep learning paradigm based on multidomain feature guidance outperforms the classical neural network guided only by time-domain features.