concrete building Design Software

COMPREHENSIVE SOFTWARE SUITE FOR STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING

Our concrete building design software suite (OPTUM CS, OPTUM MP, AND OPTUM SP) stands out as a powerful solution in the field of structural engineering. It represents a powerful trio in the realm of structural engineering software, offering a complete suite for designing and analyzing reinforced concrete walls and slabs with precision and efficiency.

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Perfect for comprehensive building analysis, OPTUM CS ensures your structures maintain their integrity, efficiently distribute loads, and remain stable under various conditions. It's your go-to solution for large-scale construction projects, offering unmatched precision in identifying critical stress points.

OPTUM SP our specialized Horizontal Load Calculation Software, focuses on accurately simulating and calculating horizontal forces such as wind, seismic activity, and lateral loads. These forces are crucial for ensuring the stability and safety of your structures.

Conduct Ultimate Limit State (ULS) and Serviceability Limit State (SLS) analyses of reinforced concrete slabs with OPTUM MP. This advanced tool is ideal for dealing with complex slab layouts, seeking efficient time and material utilization.

Our software suite caters to a wide range of structural analysis needs, empowering engineers to choose the perfect tool for their specific project requirements.

Concrete slabs: Together, these tools offer precise calculations for both load resistance and deformation control, while optimizing material use.

Below the concrete foundation: If you need to perform geotechnical analysis before starting the structural design, we recommend using our geotechnical software, OPTUM GX.

Beams and Columns: OPTUM CS helps optimize the design of beams and columns by accurately analyzing stress points.

Supporting strucural elements: Perform detailed assessments of how beams and columns respond to loads, ensuring they function as the primary structural elements supporting the building.

The core: Maintain the core's integrity by distributing loads efficiently under various conditions and identify critical stress points

Vertical loads: OPTUM MP automate yield-line analysis with Limit Analysis, providing a load multiplier and a visual collapse mechanism.

Concrete wall sections: Optimize the design of concrete wall sections, significantly reducing material use and CO2 emissions.

Horizontal forces: calculating forces such as wind, seismic activity, and lateral loads to ensure your structure remains stable and resilient.

Horizontal forces: Calculating forces such as wind, seismic activity, and lateral loads to ensure your structure remains stable and resilient.

Concrete wall sections: Optimize the design of concrete wall sections, significantly reducing material use and CO2 emissions.

Vertical loads: OPTUM MP automate yield-line analysis with Limit Analysis, providing a load multiplier and a visual collapse mechanism.

The core: Maintain the core's integrity by distributing loads efficiently under various conditions and identify critical stress points

Beams and Columns: OPTUM CS helps optimize the design of beams and columns by accurately analyzing stress points.

Supporting strucural elements: Perform detailed assessments of how beams and columns respond to loads, ensuring they function as the primary structural elements supporting the building.

Concrete slabs: Together, these tools offer precise calculations for both load resistance and deformation control, while optimizing material use.

Below the concrete foundation: If you need to perform geotechnical analysis before starting the structural design, we recommend using our geotechnical software, OPTUM GX.

Optum CS

The ultimate calculation package tailored for precast concrete construction, providing engineers with the tools needed to optimize designs, save materials, and ensure sustainability. With features such as automated report generation, CO2 savings analysis, and full compliance with Eurocodes, OPTUM CS streamlines workflows and enhances project outcomes.

Material Savings: Achieve over 30% reduction in concrete
and reinforcement usage, translating to significant cost savings.

Time Efficiency: Streamline your workflow and reduce engineering hours with automatic report generation, allowing you to focus on what matters most.

Environmental Impact: Contribute to substantial CO2 savings, aligning with sustainability goals and reduce your carbon footprint.

Certified Sustainability: Obtain sustainability certification for your concrete constructions, showcasing your commitment to
eco-friendly practices.

Eurocodes Compliance: Ensure full compliance with Eurocodes, meeting regulatory standards and industry requirements effortlessly.

Automatic Load Transfer from struXML with Python

With the latest Python script – developed in collaboration with Sweco and Spæncom – you can now automatically generate complete CSP models in OPTUM CS directly from struXML files.

This provides significant advantages for both consulting engineers and element manufacturers involved in structural design:

Automatic transfer of geometry, loads, and reactions

Inclusion of load combinations, eccentricity, and special effects (e.g. fire loads or balcony fixings)

Full compliance with equilibrium and interface conditions – no manual post-processing required

Significantly faster design process

No manual setup – reduced risk of errors

Here’s what users says about the StruXML function:

"It works seamlessly. We can now generate a complete CS model with both geometry and loads – saving a great deal of design time."
— Danny Hansen, Structural Engineer, Spæncom

"The new automation makes the process much more efficient and reduces the frustration of time-consuming manual work."
— Martin Bønnelykke, Structural Engineer, Sweco

With OPTUM CS, you can significantly streamline your workflow while avoiding the need to set up load combinations one by one – and eliminate the risk of manual errors.

FEa software package FOR REINFORCED CONCRETE SLAB DESIGN

Conduct Ultimate Limit State (ULS) and Serviceability Limit State (SLS) analyses of reinforced concrete slabs with OPTUM MP effortlessly. This advanced tool is ideal for consulting engineers dealing with complex slab layouts, seeking efficient time and material utilization.

OPTUM MP is a unique software, offering fully automated yield-line analysis using Limit Analysis. This provides a load multiplier along with a visual representation of the collapse mechanism. For deformation calculations in SLS, OPTUM MP provides an elastoplastic analysis, making it easier to manage deformation requirements.

OPTUM MP streamlines both capacity verification and deformation analysis, catering to the needs of modern structural engineers.

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OPTUM MP SOFTWARE FEA PACKAGE FOR REINFORCED CONCRETE SLAB DESIGN

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OPTUM SP CONCRETE AND REINFORCEMENT SLABS WITH STRINGER

OPTUM SP is a specialized Horizontal Load Calculation Software, and focuses on accurately simulating and calculating horizontal forces such as wind, seismic activity, and lateral loads. These forces are crucial for ensuring the stability and safety of your structures.

Providing precise calculations ensures your slabs are designed to resist horizontal forces, preventing structural failures. This efficiency speeds up the design process and helps avoid costly mistakes, making OPTUM SP a cost-effective solution for reliable construction.
Additionally, SP significantly saves materials and time by providing engineers with a user-friendly and efficient tool.

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THE Optum CS way vs. THE Traditional Way

Optum Way

Uses Elastoplastic FEA to calculate

Use less reinforcement and concrete

step 1 geometry and reinforcement OPTUM CS

Geometry &
Reinforcement

Loads

step 3 elastoplasic fe calculation stress distribution optum cs

Elastoplastic Fe Calculation Stress Distribution

Post-processing According to ec2

Traditional Way

Uses Elasticplastic FEA to calculate

More reinforcement and concerete

Geometry

Loads

Elastic fe calculation stress distribution

step 4 post-processing according to ec2 norm check

Post-processing According to ec2 Reinforcement norm check

Elastoplastic Analysis

Enhanced Geometry and Initial Reinforcement: Starts with the geometry and initial reinforcement in place.

Comprehensive Stress Analysis: Considers both elastic and plastic material behavior, providing a more accurate stress distribution.

Improved Compliance Check: Ensures reinforcement meets Eurocode 2 standards after accounting for plastic behavior, leading to more effective and safer structural designs.

Elastic Analysis

Basic Geometry and Loads: Shows the structure's basic layout and applied loads.

Stress Distribution: Calculates how stresses are distributed under these loads.

Reinforcement Design: Determines necessary reinforcement based on stress distribution, following Eurocode 2 standards.

Key Benefits

Accuracy: Elastoplastic analysis offers a more realistic assessment of structural behavior under loads.

Safety: By considering material plasticity, it provides a safer design with appropriate reinforcement.

Compliance: Ensures better adherence to building codes and standards, enhancing overall structural integrity.
In summary, elastoplastic analysis offers a deeper, more reliable understanding of structural performance, leading to safer, more compliant building designs.

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Simplify Your Documentation Process with optum cs

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Automatic report generation minimizes manual effort, saving you valuable time while ensuring accuracy. Reports include comprehensive safety factors, stress and strain checks, built-in code compliance checks, and detailed post-processed results.

Our OPTUM CS reports provide clear, detailed visual representations of structural geometry, material specifications, reinforcement data, load analysis, and more. All input values are fully documented for third-party verification. Key report highlights include comprehensive code compliance checks for walls, columns, and beams according to the EN1992 standards. Additionally, automatic checks of maximum strain levels in all concrete and rebar are performed.

Generate professional, easy-to-read documentation quickly and efficiently. Download an example CS report below.

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7975€

/seat

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Concrete building design package

Design strips for wall code check

Code check of beams and columns

Fire design included

Elastoplastic analysis for SLS and ULS

Automatic report generator

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Shear walls and diaphragms analysis

Stringer and Limit Analysis for ULS

Elastoplastic analysis for SLS

Optimal plastic solution for slabs

Load manager based on Eurocode

Automatic report generator

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Slab yield line analysis in seconds

Elastoplastic analysis for SLS

Safety factors according to EN1992

Load manager based on Eurocode

Include column

Automatic report generator

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MAXIMIZE YOUR SOFTWARE INVESTMENT

In just one day, your engineers will gain a deep understanding of OPTUM GX, allowing for more efficient and seamless use. We recommend starting with a real project you're already working on. This makes the training highly relevant — and helps the software become part of your team’s everyday workflow from day one. The course is more than just onboarding. It’s an investment in your team’s professional development and the successful implementation of your software.

A small effort with a significant return.

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