ABOUT the VTAM research project
This website implements the heuristic search algorithm named VTAM (Vast Territories Aerial Mapping). This optimization procedure is based on the classic metaphor of landscape tracking. The Benchmark menu option contains a set of well-known mathematical functions and engineering design cases that are ready to be optimized online by the visitor in order to prove the accuracy and efficiency of VTAM. Although this algorithm has been developed as a general-purpose heuristic search engine, it is particularly suited to the optimization of building structures.
The static/dynamic analyses and all the design assessments required to check every structural configuration of a given case are performed directly linking to the core of Architrave®. This program has been extensively developed to solve a wide range of structural problems, including the design of timber, steel, or reinforced concrete structures.
Academic visitors interested in submitting structural optimization tasks to VTAM can request for a free registration account just sending an e-mail to the corresponding author*.
A PDF archive, with details about the arguments file to be submitted to VTAM in order to optimize any structure that fits into the scope of cases implemented in this website can be downloaded following this
link
CREDITS
VTAM conception
GUARDIOLA-VILLORA, Arianna
1,* (http://www.upv.es/ficha-personal/aguardio)
PEREZ-GARCIA, Agustin
1 (http://www.upv.es/ficha-personal/aperezg)
VTAM implementation
GUARDIOLA-VILLORA, Arianna
1,* (http://www.upv.es/ficha-personal/aguardio)
PEREZ-GARCIA, Agustin
1 (http://www.upv.es/ficha-personal/aperezg)
Web development & distributed parallel search procedures
PEREZ-GARCIA, Agustin 1,* (http://www.upv.es/ficha-personal/aperezg)
LOZANO LLORET, Pau 1 (http://www.upv.es/ficha-personal/palollo)
Implementation of structural design optimization procedures
PEREZ-GARCIA, Agustin 1,* (http://www.upv.es/ficha-personal/aperezg)
ALONSO ÁBALOS, José Miguel 1 (http://www.upv.es/ficha-personal/joalab)
LOZANO LLORET, Pau 1 (http://www.upv.es/ficha-personal/palollo)
Architrave®
PEREZ-GARCIA, Agustin 1,* (http://www.upv.es/ficha-personal/aperezg)
ALONSO DURÁ, Adolfo 1 (http://www.upv.es/ficha-personal/aalonsod)
GUARDIOLA-VILLORA, Arianna 1 (http://www.upv.es/ficha-personal/aguardio)
GÓMEZ-MARTÍNEZ, Fernando 2 (https://www.ugr.es/personal/d86ec806cab7eb06054fbe46f9c53ac5)
ALONSO ÁBALOS, José Miguel 1 (http://www.upv.es/ficha-personal/joalab)
LOZANO LLORET, Pau 1 (http://www.upv.es/ficha-personal/palollo)
Architrave 2019 [Available online at www.architrave.es]
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1 Universitat Politècnica de València. Valencia (Spain)
2 Universidad de Granada. Granada (Spain)
* Corresponding author. PEREZ-GARCIA, Agustin
Tel.: +34 666327217; E-mail address: aperezg@mes.upv.es