Structural

Our highly experienced structural engineering and design team provide a multi-faceted service to our clients from consultation and conceptual studies, through FEED and detailed design to complex engineering analysis including Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and “react” scopes of work.

Our experience providing detailed design for clients covers a wide range of greenfield and brownfield projects. Examples include detail design of Living Quarters (LQ), support grillages, repair clamps, subsea support clamps, caisson & conductor engineering, equipment supports and ROV launch systems. Our experienced design team is capable of producing detailed engineering drawings on AutoCAD to tight schedules with the necessary quality control applied.

Services

  • Brownfield Engineering

    We offer a complete range of Brownfield Engineering services;

    • Caisson & conductor engineering
    • Repair /Support clamp design
    • Single /Module projects – ALQ /Equipment containers
    • Equipment removal / Replacement projects
    • Access structures / Escape devices
    • Lifeboat / Davit replacement
    • Secondary structures assessment / Repair / Replacement
    • Repair order & minor mods – complete service
    • Fabrication management

  • Structural Detailed Design

    Enabling Efficient Design

    We encourage collaboration between all engineers & designers. Our aim is to achieve safe, practical solutions using an efficient combination of detail engineering and analysis.

    Having these capabilities in-house minimises interfaces and can even remove all interfaces between anomaly assessment, mitigation and detailed design of remediation or repair.

  • Advanced Analysis (FEA)

    Optimus can offer a comprehensive range of Advanced Analysis services including:

    • Full range of jacket and topsides analysis
    • Root cause and repair analysis
    • Static, dynamic, Linear and Non-linear analysis
    • Contact analysis including complex multiple contact simulations
    • Buckling and collapse analysis
    • Fatigue and fracture mechanics
    • Hydrodynamic analysis
    • Blast and impact analysis
    • Specialist non-linear dynamic analysis
    • Analysis of components
    • Installation and decommissioning
    • Ship structural analysis
    • Pipe-in-pipe analysis for down hole tools
    • Reinforced concrete design and assessment
    • Probabilistic assessments
    • Webshare of structural models

  • Structural – Modular Design

    Optimus have developed a specialist design service for modular 'container' structures used for LQ rooms, equipment rooms, electrical rooms, and offices. Given the current space restrictions offshore combined with the need for better quality accommodation the modular solution provides a custom designed solution to provide clients with a comprehensive, timely responsive module design or verification service to fabricators to complement their in-house technical teams.

  • Software

    We use a range of software packages:

    Engineering

    • STAAD Pro (offshore)
    • DNV GL Sesam for fixed structures
    • DNV GL Sesam for floating structures
    • ABAQUS FE NL Package
    • FESafe (detailed fatigue analysis)

    Design

    • Autodesk Design Suite
    • PDMS

    Data Gathering

    • Autodesk Recap
    • FARO Scene
    • Intrinsically safe Ipad

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