Acoustic emission monitoring for early warning of pigment-layer degradation in mural heritage under dynamic environmental loading
摘要
Salt crystallization cycles in museum mural pigments can generate weak and intermittent acoustic emission (AE) signals that are easily masked by noise, making early damage detection difficult. This study presents an AE-based ultra-early warning framework for pigment-layer degradation under dynamic temperature–humidity loading. Under controlled cycling conditions, AE and environmental data were synchronously collected and aligned into overlapping time windows. Multi-scale features combining environmental trends, AE statistics, burst characteristics, and parameter histograms were extracted to capture faint precursors. The warning task was formulated as a sequence-based prediction problem, using 20 min of historical data to forecast high-risk AE activity within the next 2 min. Thresholds were optimized using segment-level F1-score under a false-positive constraint, and temporal post-processing was applied to generate coherent alarm episodes and a two-level alert scheme. A gated recurrent unit model achieved the best balance of accuracy, recall, and alarm continuity, supporting preventive conservation of mural heritage.