Geomechanics Director

A Packaged Solution Offering (PSO) that provides a flexible and customizable platform for building and analyzing geomechanical models.

Numerical simulation in geoscience has a long and successful history. The last decade in particular has seen almost universal application of numerical simulation (esp. Finite Element Analysis - FEA) in subsurface disciplines such as geomechanics and coupled flow simulation. Over the decades, many numerical simulation techniques have been applied to geoscience and almost as many ways to build a geo-scientific model developed. Altair Geomechanics Director has evolved from a geomechanics specific tool to one that provides a wide-ranging unified construction and analysis environment for almost any geo-scientific numerical simulation.

Unfortunately, model construction and interpretation remain the two most user time consuming activities and limit the use cases where a subspace numerical analysis is viable. The Altair Geomechanics Director has been explicitly designed to address the numerous pain points within a numerical analysis based subsurface project. Geomechanics Director (GeoD) streamlines the two most user intensive aspects - building and analysing – of deploying an eart model based surface simulation. By streamlining the build and analyse/report activities, GeoD allows you to produce improved numerical results in a shorter time frame and with more complete analysis of the simulation results.

Altair's Geomechanics Director (GeoD) is embedded into HyperWorks pre and post processing technology. The solution simplifies the numerical modelling and result interpretation process for the geoscience community. GeoD has two modules: GeoD-Pre for model construction and GeoD-Post for analysis and reporting. GeoD-Pre increases the efficiency and accelerates the construction of mechanical earth models, thereby allowing analysts to invest their time in interpreting and decision-making in GeoD-Post, rather than the time-consuming model building and result manipulation processes.

The following sections will walk you through the features and options present in GeoD.