CESAR

The IMSE laboratory maintains and develops CESAR, a computational program based on the finite element method. The project was initiated in the 1980s by the Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées, then continued by IFSTTAR, and now by Université Gustave Eiffel. New features resulting from the work of IMSE laboratory researchers or other university teams are regularly added to the computational core. The solver is made available to researchers at Université Gustave Eiffel or other organizations via a dedicated website (https://cesar.univ-gustave-eiffel.fr). It is also distributed, with an advanced graphical interface, by the company Itech, as the CESAR-LCPC software package (https://cesar-lcpc.com).

The IMSE laboratory is also working on the maintenance and development of the CESAR Pilot, which is an interface allowing calculations with the solver using Python scripts (https://cesar.univ-gustave-eiffel.fr).

Since 2020, Université Gustave Eiffel and Itech have launched a new version of CESAR-LCPC every year, integrating improvements and developments to the graphical interface and the solver.

The CESAR project makes it possible to test research ideas and capitalize on developments, set up or participate in research projects, make research results available to engineering firms and gather feedback from real-world applications, offer an alternative tool for geotechnical design calculations independent of closed commercial software, and participate in expert assessments and support actions for public policies.