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Know the bounds.
Build with confidence.

Rigorous analysis software and specialist engineering tools for the questions where conventional assumptions stop being useful.

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What we do

Software built for decisive engineering.

Bounds Computational Engineering creates practical, transparent tools for geotechnical and structural analysis. We combine numerical craft with the directness of limit analysis to turn complex mechanics into decisions teams can defend.

Geotechnical analysis

Reliable assessment of slopes, excavations, foundations and retaining systems under real-world loading and ground conditions.

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Structural analysis

Purposeful software for capacity, stability and collapse mechanisms in structures where load paths deserve closer attention.

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Software & reporting

Powerful analysis tools that turn specialist methods into clear, auditable reports, carrying inputs, assumptions, bounds and design decisions through to the final document.

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In the field

From earthworks
to underground systems.

Analysis begins with the physical system: its ground, geometry, constraints and loading. Our tools are made to retain that connection, from foundations and dams to tunnels below ground.

A concrete dam holding back a reservoir in a mountain valley
01 / DAM STABILITYWater, soil and structure
Construction workers preparing a reinforced concrete foundation
02 / FOUNDATION RESPONSELoad paths in ground
03 / TUNNEL DESIGNExcavation and support

Rock analysis

Read the rock
before it moves.

Assess discontinuities, block formation and reinforcement requirements with methods that keep geology and mechanics in the same frame.

Joint sets
Orientation & persistence
Failure modes
Wedge, planar & toppling
Support design
Bolts, mesh & shotcrete
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Our approach

Limit analysis,
made useful.

We use limit analysis to identify the envelope of what is possible: robust lower bounds, informative upper bounds, and the gap that tells you where to look next.

DESIGN OUTCOME / MATERIAL EFFICIENCY

When the capacity of ground and structure is understood more precisely, teams can avoid unnecessary concrete, steel and reinforcement. Our software supports designs that use materials where they matter, helping reduce embodied carbon dioxide while maintaining the safety margins a project requires.

Bounded results

Results are expressed with the uncertainty and range an engineering decision needs.

Mechanical clarity

Every result should remain legible in terms of forces, failure and physical response.

Software that lasts

Clear interfaces, tested methods and workflows made for working engineers.

Material efficiency

Optimise support and section demands using defensible capacity bounds, not excess material.

Where it matters

Built for complex
ground and structure.

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Have a hard analysis problem, an ambitious software idea, or a method ready to leave the spreadsheet?

Let's find the
right bounds.