A multi-fidelity deep operator network (DeepONet) for fusing simulation and monitoring data: Application to real-time settlement prediction during tunnel construction

Abstract

Ground settlement prediction during the process of mechanized tunneling is of paramount importance and remains a challenging research topic. Typically, two paradigms are existing: a physics-driven approach utilizing process-oriented computational simulation models for the tunnel-soil interaction and the settlement prediction, and a data-driven approach employing machine learning techniques to establish mappings between influencing factors and the ground settlement. To integrate the advantages of both approaches and to assimilate the data from different sources, we propose a multi-fidelity deep operator network (DeepONet) framework, leveraging the recently developed operator learning methods. The presented framework comprises of two components: a low-fidelity subnet that captures the fundamental ground settlement patterns obtained from finite element simulations, and a high-fidelity subnet that learns the nonlinear correlation between numerical models and real engineering monitoring data. A pre-processing strategy for causality is adopted to consider the spatio-temporal characteristics of the settlement during tunnel excavation. Transfer learning is utilized to reduce the training cost for the low-fidelity subnet. The results show that the proposed method can effectively capture the physical information provided by the numerical simulations and accurately fit measured data as well. Remarkably, even with very limited noisy monitoring data, the proposed model can achieve rapid, accurate, and robust predictions of the full-field ground settlement in real-time during mechanized tunnel excavation.

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