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Advanced tools for analysing and verifying concrete structures under complex loading and boundary conditions.

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    Efficient and Safe Designs of Complex Structures Within Budget

    Find the optimal balance, walking the narrow ridge

    Engineering is about finding the optimal design within budget. Optimal design in terms of a solution that uses minimal materials but equally important that can be constructed and built with minimal effort. As engineers we do our best to find this solution but are always working under budgets both in terms of strict time plans and economy. The engineers finest task is finding the balance between these to contradictory goals: finding the optimal solution in minimal time. Our software is made to help you find that perfect balance and keep you walking safely on the narrow ridge, delivering great designs with minimal engineering hours. 

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    Less Time on Reporting and More Time on Designing

    Documenting calculations including a precise description of geometry, properties, and results is a requirement for all projects. Automatic report generation reduces manual work, and saves you significant time. Reports include model geometry, boundary conditions, material properties, FEM results and post processed code checks.

    Unique reporting features capture project info, model properties, materials, settings, and key results. Customize reports to your needs and export them in standard format (PDF) for seamless integration with project documents. Report results include factors of safety, stress and strain checks as well as various other bulit-in code checks. Include advanced visualizations, plots and graphs, and even animations for providing the end-reader with beatifull, and easy understable documentation.

    Optimized Solvers — Less Hassle, More Productivity

    Our unique Optimization-Based Finite Element Method (OBFEM) ensures that even the most complex tasks are completed quickly and without errors.

    Nonlinear FEA calculations, are often a real time buster where you tend to spend more time adressing convergence problems and adjusting convergence criteria. All done to get results so you can finalize your design. With Optum CE's unique OBFEM, this is a thing in the past.

    With our unique Optimization-Based FEM kernel, OBFEM, convergence issues are a problem of the past. And if that wasn't good enough, OBFEM even lets you perform classical Load-Displacement analyses as well as calculate limit loads and factors of safety in a single step. This effectively means you have both ULS (Ultimate Limit State) and SLS (Serviceability Limit State) calculations in one software package — a unique feature in itself. Of course, the software also allows you to analyze groundwater flows in both steady-state and transient conditions.

With OBFEM eliminating your numerical challenges, you can devote your efforts entirely to creating outstanding designs, focusing on innovation rather than tedious convergence issues and other time-consuming tasks. Enjoy a streamlined workflow and increased productivity with Optum's advanced solver technology.

    Our Valued Users

    See what our users are saying about their experience

    Christian Olsen

    Discipline Manager | Subsea7
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    "OPTUM GX has been a substantial enhancement for our workflow. It’s efficiency allows for geotechnical capacity calculations to be completed in record time. Beyond speed, the lower and upper bound function provide dependability, ensuring me the highest quality of results."

    Mathias Sundahl Grønholdt

    Civil engineer | DMR
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    "With Optum, not only can we perform our calculations faster, but we can also present them in a visual and understandable manner for our clients. That's a huge added value for us."

    Einar Ingolfsson
    CEO | KI
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    "Finally, we get a program that takes full advantage of the plastic properties of concrete structures, which can be used in an accurate and clear way for analysis and design of even the most advanced structures. Ultimately, our most important job as a consultant is to create value for the developer, and here is perhaps the program's greatest strength."
    Jorge Ibarra Pérez
    Sole practitioner

    “With features like limit analysis, incremental elastoplasticity, and mesh refinement, I could handle various approaches, making everyday calculations straightforward and time efficient.”

    Kasper Pagh Petersen
    Civil Engineer | Rambøll
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    "It is intuitive, easy, and fast. The adaptive mesh also allows keeping the elements to a minimum, which minimizes calculation times. The entire design process of iterating, especially at the start of the process, and finding the optimal geometry and solution is super-fast. This is where I think Optum excels compared to other competing software on the market."
    Lars Zenke Hansen
    Manager | Niras A/S
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    "In fact, if we did not use the program, it would not be possible to consider the Facade as complete load bearing. With the program we get a lot of detailed calculations, which is crucial for us to us e the facade for carrying horizontal loads."

    Anders Christensen

    Engineer | Rambøll

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    "It is tailored for geotechnical analyses without the interference of other modules. It focuses solely on pure geotechnics and the specific elements that interest us, without confusing them with unnecessary things."

    Peter Andersen Hansgaard

    Structural engineer | Dan-Element A/S
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    "The use of OPTUM CS resulted in a far more optimal reinforcement compared to a stringer calculation, frame consideration or FEM analysis of a self supporting wall with door and window recesses."

    Henrik Stang

    Professor | DTU Civil
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    "We are well on the way with plastic calculation methods, which can be used in accordance with current Eurocodes. These methods of calculation will save more than 30 percent on material consumption of concrete and reinforcement"

    "OPTUM GX has been a substantial enhancement for our workflow. It’s efficiency allows for geotechnical capacity calculations to be completed in record time. Beyond speed, the lower and upper bound function provide dependability, ensuring me the highest quality of results."

    Christian Olsen

    Discipline Manager | Subsea7
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    "With Optum, not only can we perform our calculations faster, but we can also present them in a visual and understandable manner for our clients. That's a huge added value for us."

    Mathias Sundahl Grønholdt

    Civil engineer | DMR
    Image

    "Finally, we get a program that takes full advantage of the plastic properties of concrete structures, which can be used in an accurate and clear way for analysis and design of even the most advanced structures. Ultimately, our most important job as a consultant is to create value for the developer, and here is perhaps the program's greatest strength."

    Einar Ingolfsson
    CEO | KI
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    “With features like limit analysis, incremental elastoplasticity, and mesh refinement, I could handle various approaches, making everyday calculations straightforward and time efficient.”

    Jorge Ibarra Pérez
    Sole practitioner

    "It is intuitive, easy, and fast. The adaptive mesh also allows keeping the elements to a minimum, which minimizes calculation times. The entire design process of iterating, especially at the start of the process, and finding the optimal geometry and solution is super-fast. This is where I think Optum excels compared to other competing software on the market."

    Kasper Pagh Petersen
    Civil Engineer | Rambøll
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    "In fact, if we did not use the program, it would not be possible to consider the Facade as complete load bearing. With the program we get a lot of detailed calculations, which is crucial for us to us e the facade for carrying horizontal loads."
    Lars Zenke Hansen
    Manager | Niras A/S
    Image

    "It is tailored for geotechnical analyses without the interference of other modules. It focuses solely on pure geotechnics and the specific elements that interest us, without confusing them with unnecessary things."

    Anders Christensen

    Engineer | Rambøll

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    "The use of OPTUM CS resulted in a far more optimal reinforcement compared to a stringer calculation, frame consideration or FEM analysis of a self supporting wall with door and window recesses."

    Peter Andersen Hansgaard

    Structural engineer | Dan-Element A/S
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    "We are well on the way with plastic calculation methods, which can be used in accordance with current Eurocodes. These methods of calculation will save more than 30 percent on material consumption of concrete and reinforcement"

    Henrik Stang

    Professor | DTU Civil
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