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Rapid Visual Screening Feature Importance for Seismic Vulnerability Ranking via Machine Learning and SHAP values

Version 1 : Received: 12 February 2024 / Approved: 12 February 2024 / Online: 12 February 2024 (14:53:17 CET)

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Karampinis, I.; Iliadis, L.; Karabinis, A. Rapid Visual Screening Feature Importance for Seismic Vulnerability Ranking via Machine Learning and SHAP Values. Appl. Sci. 2024, 14, 2609. Karampinis, I.; Iliadis, L.; Karabinis, A. Rapid Visual Screening Feature Importance for Seismic Vulnerability Ranking via Machine Learning and SHAP Values. Appl. Sci. 2024, 14, 2609.

Abstract

Structures inevitably suffer damages after an earthquake, with their severity ranging from minimal damages to non-structural elements to partial or even total collapse, possibly with loss of human lives. Thus, it is essential for engineers to understand the crucial factors that drive a structure towards suffering higher degrees of damage, so that preventative measures can be taken. In the present study, we focus on three well-known damage thresholds, namely Collapse Limit State, Ultimate Limit State and Serviceability Limit State and analyze which of the features obtained via Rapid Visual Screening, determine whether or not a given structure will cross that threshold. To this end, we use Machine Learning to perform binary classification for each damage threshold, as well as Explainability via SHAP values (acronym for SHapley Additive exPlanations) to quantify the effect of each parameter. The quantitative results obtained demonstrate the potential applicability of ML methods to re-calibrate the computation of structural vulnerability indices using data from recent earthquakes.

Keywords

Rapid Visual Screening; Explainable AI; Feature Importance; SHAP

Subject

Engineering, Civil Engineering

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