ESOP – Engineering Software Open Platform

ESOP is software developed for Component Design and Analysis based in MS Excel.

ESOP works on many levels:

• As a workbook of standard modules that the user may access for carrying out everyday analysis and design work
• As a program that the Engineer can use to write his own programs
• As a program that can automatically communicate bi-directionally with ROBOT Millennium, thereby facilitating the ability for the user to write their own pre and post processors for ROBOT – examples include connection design, wave loading etc

• work with selected language interface (multilingual and multinational program)
• over 150 modules available (possibility to create user-defined module library)
• carrying out calculations of predefined structure component
• verifying results
• preparing documentation (WYSIWYG system)

The program consists of a set of simple and complex calculation schemas for many areas of engineering (very wide range of engineering applications in the construction industry).

Details of Standard Modules available in the ESOP program:

• Steel Connections (various types) to British and US Standards
• Section property calculations
• Steel design
• Fire calculations
• Wave loader
• Offshore design modules
• Castellated Beam Sections
• Finite Elements, Plates, Membranes, Auto mesh generator, apply loads, instant update of results
• + many more

Open Standard and Integration

The communication with ROBOT Millennium or other software may have different forms :

• the modules may function as generators of completed models for ROBOT Millennium - via COM technology called ROBOT Open Standard (e.g. generator of frames with the elements of variable section, combinations generator, generator of typical solutions of static models, ...)
• calculation modules will automatically capture the data from ROBOT Millennium (e.g. data concerning geometry, materials, sections, loads, internal forces, ...)
• the modules may extend the possibilities of results analysis of ROBOT Millennium (e.g. new types of results set-ups, additional results for non-linear problems, new design codes...)
• the modules may extend the calculation capacity of ROBOT Millennium (e.g. open beams in a structure, steel column bases...)
• a set of tools exist for users to easily extract data from ROBOT Millennium, such as member data, nodal data, forces, loads etc.