Classification of External Vibration Sources through Data-Driven Models Using Hybrid CNNs and LSTMs

Excessive external vibrations could affect the normal functioning and integrity of sensitive buildings such as laboratories and heritage buildings. Usually, these buildings are exposed to multiple external vibration sources simultaneously, so the monitoring and respective evaluation of the vibration from various sources is necessary for the design of targeted vibration mitigation measures. To classify the sources of vibration accurately and efficiently, the advanced hybrid models of the convolutional neural network (CNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM) network were built in this study, and the models are driven by the extensive data of external vibration recorded in Beijing, and the parametric studies reveal that the proposed optimal model can achieve an accuracy of over 97% for the identification of external vibration sources. Finally, a real-world case study is presented, in which external vibration monitoring was carried out in a laboratory and the proposed CNN+LSTM model was used to identify the sources of vibration in the monitoring so that the impact of vibration from each source on the laboratory was analyzed statistically in detail. The results demonstrate the necessity of this study and its feasibility for engineering applications.