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In the past, the structural strain damage identification method based on specific damage index needs the designer to have rich experience and background knowledge, and the designed damage index is hard to apply to different structures. In this paper, a U-shaped efficient structural strain damage identification network SDFormer (structural damage transformer) based on self-attention feature is proposed. SDFormer regards the problem of structural strain damage identification as an image segmentation problem, and introduces advanced image segmentation technology for structural damage identification. This network takes the strain field map of the structure as the input, and then outputs the predicted damage location and level. In the SDFormer, the low-level and high-level features are smoothly fused by skip connection, and the self-attention module is used to obtain damage feature information, to effectively improve the performance of the model. SDFormer can directly construct the mapping between strain field map and damage distribution without complex damage index design. While ensuring the accuracy, it improves the identification efficiency. The effectiveness and accuracy of the model are verified by numerical experiments, and the performance of an advanced convolutional neural network is compared. The results show that SDFormer has better performance than the advanced convolutional neural network. Further, an anti-noise experiment is designed to verify the anti-noise and robustness of the model. The anti-noise performance of SDFormer is better than that of the comparison model in the anti-noise experimental results, which proves that the model has good anti-noise and robustness.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22062358","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,20]],"date-time":"2022-03-20T21:37:17Z","timestamp":1647812237000},"page":"2358","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["SDFormer: A Novel Transformer Neural Network for Structural Damage Identification by Segmenting the Strain Field Map"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5887-3272","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhaoyang","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory for Track Traffic Safety of Ministry of Education, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China"},{"name":"Joint International Research Laboratory of Key Technology for Rail Traffic Safety, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ping","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory for Track Traffic Safety of Ministry of Education, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China"},{"name":"Joint International Research Laboratory of Key Technology for Rail Traffic Safety, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jie","family":"Xing","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory for Track Traffic Safety of Ministry of Education, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China"},{"name":"Joint International Research Laboratory of Key Technology for Rail Traffic Safety, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8962-9002","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chengxing","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory for Track Traffic Safety of Ministry of Education, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China"},{"name":"Joint International Research Laboratory of Key Technology for Rail Traffic Safety, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Eisenmann, D.J., Enyart, D., Lo, C., and Brasche, L. 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