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Developing a Bridge Condition Rating Model Based on Limited Number of Data Sets
This chapter utilizes artificial neural network (ANN) and multiple regression analysis (MRA) to model bridge condition rating based on limited number of data sets. Since data sets are very limited and there is a gap in range of rating scale, two conditions of data sets are used in this study, namely complete data sets and data set with bridge component condition rating data are missing. Five methods are then used to handle the missing bridge component condition rating data. Three commonly used methods and two new methods are explored in this study. It seems that the performance of the model using data sets after handling missing bridge component data to fill the gaps in the range scales of the bridge condition rating improved the performance of the model. In addition, a handling method that substitutes missing data of bridge component ratings with available bridge rating data is favorable. Based on the values of root mean square error (RMSE) and R2, the ANN models perform slightly better than MRA to map relationship between bridge components and bridge condition rating. This concluded that ANN is suitable to model bridge condition rating compare to MRA method.
Part of the book: Bridge Engineering