*Result*: A novel bridge wind-induced vibration response prediction algorithm based on temporal convolution network.

Title:
A novel bridge wind-induced vibration response prediction algorithm based on temporal convolution network.
Authors:
Qu Y; Power China Broadbridge Group Co. Ltd, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China., Bai X; Power China Broadbridge Group Co. Ltd, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China., Zhu T; School of Civil Engineering and Transportation, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, China., Zuo S; School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, China.
Source:
PloS one [PLoS One] 2026 Feb 23; Vol. 21 (2), pp. e0336973. Date of Electronic Publication: 2026 Feb 23 (Print Publication: 2026).
Publication Type:
Journal Article
Language:
English
Journal Info:
Publisher: Public Library of Science Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 101285081 Publication Model: eCollection Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1932-6203 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 19326203 NLM ISO Abbreviation: PLoS One Subsets: MEDLINE
Imprint Name(s):
Original Publication: San Francisco, CA : Public Library of Science
Entry Date(s):
Date Created: 20260223 Date Completed: 20260223 Latest Revision: 20260226
Update Code:
20260226
PubMed Central ID:
PMC12928600
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pone.0336973
PMID:
41729983
Database:
MEDLINE

*Further Information*

*The stiffness of the high pier, large span rigid bridge in the operation period increases its ability to resist wind-induced vibration. However, the structural properties of high piers and long cantilevers make it susceptible to wind-induced vibration during construction in solid wind areas, which brings safety risks. The wind vibration response has strong nonlinear and random fluctuation characteristics, which brings significant challenges to the accurate prediction during the construction stage of bridges. A novel prediction algorithm for bridge wind-vibration response based on a temporal convolutional network (TCN) is proposed in this paper. It employs causal convolution to mine the mapping relationship of wind-induced vibration response acceleration data, utilizes dilation convolution to capture the multi-scale features of wind vibration response, and mitigates the gradient vanishing problem by residual connections between network layers. The proposed wind-induced vibration response prediction model based on TCN for bridges is compared in detail with advanced algorithms such as recurrent neural network (RNN), long-short-term memory network (LSTM), and gated unit network (GRU). The results demonstrate that the proposed algorithms have excellent prediction accuracy and generalization ability for wind vibration acceleration in different directions, such as torsion, vertical, transverse bridge, and along the bridge.
(Copyright: © 2026 Qu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)*

*The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.*