Automated Post-Tensioning Design

POSTECK PRESTRESSING, in collaboration with ALPS CONSULTANTS, is introducing a new generation of post-tensioning engineering design with PTFEM+OP (2026), an advanced AI-assisted design platform that automates and optimizes the complete post-tensioning workflow. By combining finite element analysis, structural mechanics, optimization algorithms, and intelligent design automation, the system enables engineers to produce safer, more economical, and more consistent designs while significantly reducing design time. Rather than replacing engineering judgment, AI serves as a powerful assistant that explores thousands of feasible solutions, allowing engineers to make faster, better-informed decisions based on sound structural mechanics and international design standards, i.e., ACI 318-25. 

PTFEM+OP is designed to automate the complete PT slab design workflow—from geometry interpretation, tendon synthesis, punching shear design, FEM verification, and drafting—in a way that differs from the conventional analysis-centric workflow of mainstream PT design software. Using PTFEM+OP enables efficient material use while retaining structural performance and ensuring no errors in the final design, including constructability. Our clients will surely benefit from a faster design workflow and the best design chosen from several thousand candidates, a task that can only be performed using intelligent algorithms.