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What is the best structural design program to learn that is sufficient, commonly used and recognized world widely ?

weather Sap, Staad pro, Etabs, Prokon , Revit ...etc.There are a lot of options and preferable programs that employers require, and differ from country to another, what is the best structural engineering program to learn!

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Date Posted: 2016/10/20
Mohammed Ansar Athimannil
by Mohammed Ansar Athimannil , Senior Structural Engineer , Ministry of Education-Kuwait.

I PROPRABLY PREFER COMPUTERS AND STRUCTURES INTERNATIONAL(CSI) SOFTWARES.....(ETABS 2016,SAP2000,SAFE 2016,) OVER STAADPRO

 

REASONS....

1.CSI SOFTWARES ARE BASED ON STIFFNESS BASED LOAD TRANSFER MECHANISM WHICH IS IN REALITY WHEREAS STAAD PRO IS BASED ON GEOMETRY BASED LOAD TRANSFER.

2. STUNNING GRAPHICAL USER INTERFERACE

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FOR DESIGN OF STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS I PREFER RCDC & MIDAS

 

 

TARIQ AHMED ABD EL-AZIZ GOHAR
by TARIQ AHMED ABD EL-AZIZ GOHAR , consultant projects manager , Saudi Consolidated Engineering Company (Khatib&Alami)

Sap 2000 is better for me

staad  pro in the nearest to sap .

Krishnaveni B
by Krishnaveni B , Project Scientist-I Chennai , National Institute of Ocean Technology

Universally STAADPRO is the only software preferred

Jibin raj
by Jibin raj , Cadmatic Design Engineer , Conceptia

FEMAP with NX Nastran solver offers a wide variety of analysis options, which are really user friendly. It also have good post processing optoins.

Nyasha Mombeshora
by Nyasha Mombeshora , Civil Engineer

For reinforced concrete i.e beams, columns and slabs, ADC 8.4 works well, and for structural steel i.e portal frames, trusses GSA is the best I have ever used. Prokon does both of them

Akil Gai
by Akil Gai , Manager - Civil , BASF Chemicals India Pvt. Ltd.

Most commonly used is STAAD Pro.

syed ameenuddin quadri
by syed ameenuddin quadri , Structural Design Engineer , Novel Engineering Consultants Pvt. Ltd.

If it comes to the single software I would go for Staad Pro.

Shadab Ahmad
by Shadab Ahmad , Software Developer , Leader Investment Group

Currently MVC, Angular is best architecture in develoment .

Mahmoud Hanafy
by Mahmoud Hanafy , Structural BIM Coordinator , Khatib & Alami

I prefer working on CSI SAP2000 in the 2 dimensional analysis and CSI Etabs for the 3D dimensional analysis.

Amr Ahmed Halawa, MIEAust, GMIStructE, PMP®, PMI-RMP®
by Amr Ahmed Halawa, MIEAust, GMIStructE, PMP®, PMI-RMP® , Sr. Structural Engineer , CEG INTERNATIONAL

CSI Safe is one of the best softwares to analyze concrete slabs, CSI Etabs is recommended for design of columns, Walls and response spectrum seismic analysis

Ahmad Abuzeineh
by Ahmad Abuzeineh , Structural Designer , Self Employed

STAAD PRO scientifically is one of  the best programs to analyse and design structural elemnts. CSI products have the best interface you can deal withand their accuracy is very good, too

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