Finite element model updating of building structures under seismic excitation: A parallelized latent space-based Bayesian framework
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| author | Yaoyama, Taro Lee, Sangwon Matsubara, Minoru Kodera, Kenzo Ugata, Takeshi Itoi, Tatsuya |
| author_facet | Yaoyama, Taro Lee, Sangwon Matsubara, Minoru Kodera, Kenzo Ugata, Takeshi Itoi, Tatsuya |
| contents | Enhancing seismic fragility and risk assessment of nuclear power plants relies on accurate prediction of reactor building responses to seismic hazards, which can be further improved through dynamic analysis of high-fidelity finite element (FE) models. However, FE models often exhibit non-negligible discrepancies from actual structures due to various sources of uncertainty, necessitating FE model updating with rigorous quantification of associated uncertainties. This paper presents a GPU-accelerated latent space--based Bayesian framework for FE model updating of building structures. In the proposed framework, high-dimensional structural response data (e.g., time histories or frequency response functions) are projected into a low-dimensional latent space using a multimodal variational autoencoder (MVAE), thereby enabling efficient and tractable likelihood evaluation without explicit modeling in the original observation space. Once trained, the surrogate enables amortized inference, allowing posterior sampling to be performed without additional simulator evaluations. We specifically employ a sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) sampler, whose population-based formulation allows parallel evaluation of the approximate likelihood on GPUs, resulting in computational efficiency and robustness against multimodal and complex posterior distributions. The proposed framework is validated through both numerical benchmarking and experimental data from a shaking table test of a reinforced concrete building structure. The results demonstrate that the method accurately estimates structural parameters with well-quantified uncertainties, while achieving fast and efficient inference through GPU-based parallelization, and enabling robust inference even in the presence of sparse observations that induce multimodal and highly complex posterior distributions. |
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| spellingShingle | Finite element model updating of building structures under seismic excitation: A parallelized latent space-based Bayesian framework Yaoyama, Taro Lee, Sangwon Matsubara, Minoru Kodera, Kenzo Ugata, Takeshi Itoi, Tatsuya Applications Enhancing seismic fragility and risk assessment of nuclear power plants relies on accurate prediction of reactor building responses to seismic hazards, which can be further improved through dynamic analysis of high-fidelity finite element (FE) models. However, FE models often exhibit non-negligible discrepancies from actual structures due to various sources of uncertainty, necessitating FE model updating with rigorous quantification of associated uncertainties. This paper presents a GPU-accelerated latent space--based Bayesian framework for FE model updating of building structures. In the proposed framework, high-dimensional structural response data (e.g., time histories or frequency response functions) are projected into a low-dimensional latent space using a multimodal variational autoencoder (MVAE), thereby enabling efficient and tractable likelihood evaluation without explicit modeling in the original observation space. Once trained, the surrogate enables amortized inference, allowing posterior sampling to be performed without additional simulator evaluations. We specifically employ a sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) sampler, whose population-based formulation allows parallel evaluation of the approximate likelihood on GPUs, resulting in computational efficiency and robustness against multimodal and complex posterior distributions. The proposed framework is validated through both numerical benchmarking and experimental data from a shaking table test of a reinforced concrete building structure. The results demonstrate that the method accurately estimates structural parameters with well-quantified uncertainties, while achieving fast and efficient inference through GPU-based parallelization, and enabling robust inference even in the presence of sparse observations that induce multimodal and highly complex posterior distributions. |
| title | Finite element model updating of building structures under seismic excitation: A parallelized latent space-based Bayesian framework |
| topic | Applications |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22305 |