MixStyle-based adversarial domain generalization for cross-domain bridge damage localization
1 School of Mechanics and Construction Engineering, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
2 School of Environment and Civil Engineering, Dongguan University of Technology, Dongguan, China
3 Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Disaster Prevention and Emergency Technologies for Urban Lifeline Engineering, Dongguan, China
4 Key Laboratory of Marine Civil Engineering Materials and Structures, Ministry of Education of China, Guangzhou, China
5 The Key Laboratory of Green Toughening and Safety Prevention and Control of Offshore Structures, Department of Education of Guangdong Province, Guangdong, China
6 School of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
  • Volume
  • Citation
    Wei X, Lin Y, Ma H, Nie Z, Li J. MixStyle-based adversarial domain generalization for cross-domain bridge damage localization. Smart Constr. 2026(3):0015, https://doi.org/10.55092/sc20260015. 
  • DOI
    10.55092/sc20260015
  • Copyright
    Copyright2026 by the authors. Published by ELSP.
Abstract

A critical challenge in structural health monitoring (SHM) is the extreme scarcity of labeled damage data from real-world bridges. Consequently, domain adaptation approaches that require target domain data with damage situation become nearly infeasible for real-world engineering applications. To address this limitation, this paper proposes a structural damage detection (SDD) method based on domain generalization, which constructs a highly generalizable damage recognition model by integrating style transfer and adversarial training. A latent domain with diverse styles is generated by mixing style features, such as mean and variance from different samples, followed by label generation through clustering. Adversarial training is then introduced to encourage the feature extractor to learn domain-invariant damage-sensitive features, thereby enabling the model to focus on essential features that are indicative of damage states. To validate the effectiveness of the proposed method, a simply supported beam model was established as the benchmark structure. Simulation results demonstrate that, compared to conventional damage identification algorithms, the proposed method exhibits superior damage localization performance on unseen target domain data. Furthermore, laboratory experiments confirm that the approach achieves excellent results in practical scenarios.

Keywords

style transfer; domain generalization; bridge damage localization; adversarial training; structural health monitoring

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