OPTIF

OPTIF is Arup’s proprietary offshore wind foundation design tool, used by our experts to deliver services across the development cycle. Leveraging extensive experience in designing offshore structures, OPTIF combines rapid analysis, advanced optimisation, and a flexible approach for efficient foundation design.

Specifically developed for offshore wind monopile and jacket foundations, innovative optimisation algorithms and analysis can lead to significant primary steel weight reductions and faster delivery. The flexibility offered by OPTIF enables Arup experts to adapt analysis to meet project-specific requirements.

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Our experts use OPTIF to deliver offshore wind foundation design services across the development cycle. Leveraging Arup’s extensive experience in designing offshore structures, OPTIF combines rapid analysis, advanced optimisation, and a flexible approach for efficient foundation design.

OPTIF applies powerful loads analysis methods and automated workflows to rapidly iterate designs, allowing for a complex design space to be explored considering many thousands of different scenarios. This allows an optimal design configuration to be identified, enhances confidence in designs at an early stage, and can result in fewer load iterations being required with the wind turbine manufacturer and reduced risk of changes in later design stages.

Building on Arup’s structural and geotechnical experience from the wider built environment, OPTIF uses purpose-built optimisation algorithms to identify primary steel configurations that minimise steel weights and reduce fabrication costs. Using industry best-practice, detailed finite element models of key components can be developed and analysed quickly and efficiently.

The solution is designed to be flexible and can be adapted to meet project specific requirements. It is solver-agnostic, facilitates transparency in delivery, and ensures consistency in approach and data formats from feasibility assessments through to detailed design.

OPTIF brings an integrated approach to offshore wind turbine foundation design, with end-to-end workflows that allow expert users to generate consistent and high-quality design outputs, drawings and reporting.