Softwares For Civil Engineers

AutoCAD:-  

AutoCAD is a semi parametric software tool that is used for drafting and 2D Design mostly. This software is invented by Autodesk Inc. in earlier 1982, now they published AutoCad 2015 their 29th version that is AutoCAD 2015. This is used for making layouts of the residential or commercial buildings. It is world famous software and used by all industries.

Staad Pro :- 

STADD PRO v8i is purchased by Bentley in 2005, today in market they launched Staad Pro v8i Select Series 5. It a geometry based Analysis Software, all industries used this at higher end. All Types of buildings are analyse with different kinds of loads acting on it suck as Seismic Load, Wind Load, Vehicle Load in Bridges. This software contains 70 Countries Codes from worldwide, and 30 Indian Codes Suck as IS456, IS 800, IS 1893 etc. 



Google SketchUP is the best ever software for work in 3D drawings and Rendering. One of the main from its feature is that its licence is at very low cost and easily google sketchup available. For interior and exterior design of buildings this software is compatible in all directions. Mostly this software is used for walkthrough purpose. It means we can see the virtual images of our building before construct It is also called Rendering. This Software has a one more feature that is Geo Location Access, it means we can upload our building in google earth in any area, it can show the real environment of the surrounding where you placed the building. 




Performance Based Design (PBD) is a major shift from traditional structural design concepts and represents the future of earthquake engineering. These new procedures help assure that the design will reliably meet a desired level of performance during a given earthquake. The fundamental component of PBD is nonlinear dynamic analysis where an attempt is made to capture the real behaviour of the structure by explicitly modelling and evaluating post-yield ductility and energy dissipation when subjected to earthquake ground motions. ETABS 2015 introduces new special purpose options and algorithms for the practical and efficient application of these procedures.



Sap 2000 founded about 30 years ago and is the most widely used structural software in Latin America, Portugal, Italy and Spain. It is also very popular in Asia and UK as well. In parallel the second most widely used software are StaadPro, ETABS and Risa 3D.

However, the grids provided in SAP makes it easier to create the geometric input than with the StaadPro or any other software of the same kind. Dynamic analysis is stronger in SAP2000 for example earthquake force applied in any direction, automatic lumping of masses for earthquake, live load reduction, bridges transient loads, Eigen modes and Ritz modes, etc. it has facilities for creep and shrinkage of concrete. Its ability to solve heterogeneous soil-structure interaction clearly differentiates it from others.



Primavera Software, Inc., the company behind Primavera, is a leading provider of Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solutions for project-intensive industries. The company was recently acquired by Oracle.
Primavera offers best-in-class solutions focused on the mission critical PPM requirements of key vertical industries including engineering and construction, public sector, aerospace and defence, utilities, oil and gas, manufacturing and high tech, and IT and services.
Primavera PPM products, together with Oracle's project financials, human resources, supply chain management, product lifecycle management, business intelligence, and infrastructure software are expected to provide the first, comprehensive Enterprise Project Portfolio Management solution. This solution is expected to help companies optimize resources and the supply chain, reduce costs, manage changes, meet delivery dates, and ultimately make better decisions, all by using real-time data.