Advances in Civil Engineering and technological revolutions has empowered the construction firms to quicken the construction process and certifying strength and quality of the structures. A couple of years back, when personal computers and operating systems were in their emergent form, building planning and construction processes were very slow and strenuous. Science and Technology are closely related and go hand in hand, with each pollinating the other and bringing about an explosive collaboration. INTRODUCTION Today, technology is spreading in almost every aspect of human life, from social life, construction, business management, medical or engineering. However, some software application can execute general structural engineering works which makes them versatile but at the same time, quite complex to handle when compared with others. From the study, it was observed that different software applications have different functions and therefore, it is impossible to say one is better than the other. In this paper, 17 different Structural Engineering software tools were evaluated based on their functional strengths. There is a need to research the strength and weakness of some of these software tools to help structural engineers in the selection of the best application in their daily tasks. Majority of these software applications operate on certain criteria which makes them suitable for some projects and unsuitable for some. There are confusions on the software to be used in the analysis and design of building structures as there are hundreds of Structural Engineering software applications in the world today.
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