Case Based Reasoning Systems for Comparative Assessment

Author(s) R. Stumptner
Bernhard Freudenthaler
J. Küng
M. Aburahma
Title Case Based Reasoning Systems for Comparative Assessment
Booktitle Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management
Typ Inproceedings
Month JUly
Year 2010
Our infrastructure is affected by aging and environmental influences, which raises the require-ment of regular inspection. Such inspections mainly consist of measurements which are recorded by accelera-tion sensors for instance. Due to the fact that more and more measurements are taken from numerous different buildings, (manual) analysis became a burden for many Structural Health Monitoring engineers. To provide computer aid to experts for interpreting measurements, a Case-based Decision Support System is introduced in this contribution. First experiments carried out on measurements from simple structures promise good per-formance and suitability. This contribution concentrates on the discussion of applying computer aid and CBR in particular to Structural Health Monitoring Processes and introduces an approach to monitor the perform-ance of the system.