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Geotechnical and Structural
Design & analysis Software

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Geotechnical

Model and analyze complex geotechnical projects, including slope stability, excavations, embankments, tunneling shallow foundations, and monopiles. Enjoy our powerful calculation motor, design visualization, and customizable scripting to meet all your geotechnical needs.

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Concrete Suite

Model and analyze concrete structural constructions with our comprehensive calculation package, including automatic interactions between wall sections or completely uncoupled from other wall sections, beams, and columns. Our structural design software helps you save engineering hours, concrete, and reinforcement.

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effecient 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. 

Our software employs our unique Optimization-Based Finite Element Method (OBFEM) for precise analyses in both 2D and 3D, features an automated report generator to save time on documentation, and Python scripting for workflow customization and automation. These tools work together to streamline your design process, ensuring efficiency and optimal use of resources.

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Plane strain (2D) analyses is a fast and powerful option for many cases. Always a good starting point.

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The Gx Way

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The GX way: In cases where plane strain (2D) is a poor choice of model, convert your 2D section to 3D with a single mouse click.

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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.

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MAKE DOCUMENTATION THE LESS OF YOUR WORRIES

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GX reports include: clear visual display of your model including soil levels, soil data, boundary conditions, etc. Key results include Load-Displacements curves, Factor of Safety, and section forces/moments for structural elements. Include any result set ot figure with ease

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CS reports include: clear visual display of structural geometry, material data, reinforcement, loads etc. All input values complte documented for third party check. Key results include complete code check of all walls, columns and beams according to the EN1992 standard. Check of maximum strain levels in all concrete and rebar provided automatically.

Create visual pleasing and easy readable documentation in no time. See below for example reports in OPTUM GX and OPTUM CS.

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Easy To Get Started — Simply Advanced

We've meticulously designed our interface and processes to minimize complexity and working hours, making it easy for you to dive into even the most advanced analyses.

We have designed our user interface to provide an intuitive and streamlined experience.

We assume that our users are experts in engineering, not in mesh generation or advanced FE algorithms. If you know what you what, you draw it up, apply materials and loads, select the relevant analysis, and press Play. We then take care of the rest.

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FASTER AND SAFER DESIGNS — AND WITH HIGhER PROFIT

How do we save time compared to traditional FEA ways?

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Nonlinear 2D FEA

Often faces problems with convergence and meshing, which are inherent in classical FEA. This is a time-intensive process and frequently requires real numerical expertise.
Optimization-Based FEM (OBFEM) ensures convergence 99.999% of the time, delivering true solutions effortlessly. This innovation allows engineers to focus on design and solving real engineering problems, leaving numerical complexities to us.
Nonlinear 3D FEA

Requires significant manual effort in defining mesh, material models, and boundary conditions. Often riddled with convergence issues in complex geometries.

OBFEM simplifies the process by leveraging robust optimization algorithms that automatically handle convergence and meshing challenges. Engineers can quickly analyze complex 3D problems with confidence and accuracy.

Linear FEA or simple calculations

Engineers often rely on linear FEA for quick assessments, but these approaches may oversimplify the problem, risking inaccurate results.

Provides reliable linear analysis tools while maintaining computational speed. Our methods ensure precision without sacrificing the simplicity needed for routine checks.

Documentation

Often engineers spend more time on what they like the least, documentation, and less time on what they want the most: making great designs.

Use our automated report generator to create spectacular and easily readable reports in no time, and spend time where it gives value and economic return: on doing engineering.

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Nonlinear 2D FEA

Optimization-Based FEM (OBFEM) ensures convergence 99.999% of the time, delivering true solutions effortlessly. This innovation allows engineers to focus on design and solving real engineering problems, leaving numerical complexities to us.

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Nonlinear 3D FEA

OBFEM simplifies the process by leveraging robust optimization algorithms that automatically handle convergence and meshing challenges. Engineers can quickly analyze complex 3D problems with confidence and accuracy.

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Linear FEA or simple calculations

Provides reliable linear analysis tools while maintaining computational speed. Our methods ensure precision without sacrificing the simplicity needed for routine checks.

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Documentation

Use our automated report generator to create spectacular and easily readable reports in no time, and spend time where it gives value and economic return: on doing engineering.

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

User's Feedback

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"OptumGX 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
Geotechnics Norway, Subsea7

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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

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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

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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."
Kasper Pagh Petersen,
Civil 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."

Anders Christensen,
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

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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."

Einar Ingolfsson,
CEO, KI

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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, DANELEMENT 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 

    MAXIMIZE YOUR SOFTWARE INVESTMENT
    Purchase A 1-DAY ONBOARDING course for your employees

    At Optum CE, we understand the importance of ensuring that your business gets the most out of your software investments. Our customized onboarding courses are designed to get your engineers going with the relevant software package in just a single day.  Although our software is intuitive and user-friendly, we strongly recommend that you take advantage of a course. This ensures that everyone on your team has the necessary prerequisites to utilize the full potential of the software. With just a single day of training, your team can gain a deep understanding of OPTUM CS or GX, enabling a more efficient and seamless use. We recommend starting with one of the projects you are working on. This way, the application gets under the skin in the way you normally work and facilitates the implementation. Therefore, our course is not only an investment in the software but also an investment in your employees' professional development while at the same time solving an actual project.  With an onboarding course you can maximize the return on your Optum software investment and better project forward — it is a small effort for a significant return.

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