My favourite Structural Engineering Design Software is the MasterSeries.  Brief summaries of each product are listed below with with links to each product.

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MasterSeries is the UK's leading range of integrated structural analysis, design, drafting and detailing software with over 10,000 users worldwide. Its power, versatility, user friendliness and excellent technical support make it the designers first choice.

MasterSeries Product Range

Analysis

MasterFrame: Space, Grillage and Plane Frame  Analysis

 

MasterSeries: 3D Model Manager

 

MasterKey: Wind Analysis

MasterFrame is a state-of-the-art structural frame analysis software program, incorporating many advanced analysis features to help Engineers meet the increasingly strenuous and demanding requirements of modern design codes.
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MasterSeries 3D Model Manager is the productivity centre of the MasterSeries modelling environment, transforming the way you think and work in the analysis and design processes of practically any structure. Here you find the perfect balance between automation and Engineering control.
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MasterKey Wind Analysis is exactly what every engineer has been looking for to dramatically reduce the burden of wind application to BS 6399 Pt 2, making the accurate application of wind loads a very simple and virtually automated task. You will soon find that it has more than paid for itself.
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MasterFrame: Finite Element Analysis

 

MasterFrame: Dynamic Analysis

 

MasterBeam: Beam Designers

MasterFrame Finite Element Analysis delivers the power of this method into the hands of the engineer without any of the inherent complexity. Using numerically superior 8 noded shell elements, building components such as shear walls, flat slabs and transfer slabs can be modelled with ease.
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MasterFrame Dynamic Analysis is a state-of-the-art program, which can be used to investigate the forces and displacements resulting from dynamic loading. The program will calculate the natural frequencies and mode shapes associated with the many modes of vibration of a structure.  
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MasterBeam: Beam Designers are a suite of 3 specialist programs providing analysis & design of cantilevers, simply supported and continuous beams and sub frames with up to 16 spans.
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Concrete Design

MasterKey: Concrete Design

 

MasterBeam: Concrete Beam Designer

 

MasterFrame: Flat Slab

MasterKey Concrete Beams, Columns and Pad Foundations are three programs for the design of the Concrete components in structures analysed using MasterFrame, MasterPort or MasterFrame Flat Slab Construction.
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MasterKey Concrete Beam Designer is a specialist program providing analysis, design, detailing and scheduling of cantilevers, simply supported & continuous beams and sub frames with up to 16 spans to BS 8110 and BS 4466 or BS 8666
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MasterFrame: Flat Slab Construction is a state-of-the-art program for the Analysis, Design and Detailing of Single and Multi-Storey Flat Slab Construction in accordance with section 3.7 of BS 8110.
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MasterRC: Pile Cap

 

MasterBeam: Concrete Beam Designer - Free version

 

 

MasterSeries Pile Cap Designer provides you with a fast route to the analysis, design, detailing and scheduling of regularly shaped pile caps for 1 to 9 piles.
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Free version of MasterKey Steel Beam Designer for the analysis and design of cantilever, simple, fixed and partially fixed single span beams to BS 8110 and EuroCode 2.
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Steel Design

MasterKey: Steel Design

 

MasterKey: Moment and Simple Connections

 

MasterPort: MasterPort Plus

MasterKey I-Sections, MasterKey Hollow Sections and MasterKey Angles, Channels and Tees are 3 interactive programs providing comprehensive design of steel sections to BS 5950 and EuroCode 3.
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MasterKey Moment and Simple Connections are the two leading Structural Steel connections design programs in the UK. They have transformed connections design from a laborious and time-consuming task, to a highly efficient engineering decision-making process.
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MasterPort Plus is a new and innovative approach to the generation, elastic-plastic analysis and design of portal frames, providing a complete management system where all aspects of a 3D portal frame building design can be considered with ease.
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MasterPort: MasterPort Lite

 

MasterBeam: Steel Beam Designer

 

MasterBeam: Steel Beam Designer - Free Version

MasterPortLite contains many of the fundamental elastic-plastic analysis and design components found in MasterPortPlus, enabling you to automatically generate and design a wide variety of plane portal frames.  
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MasterKey Steel Beam Designer provides analysis and design of cantilever, simple & continuous beams and sub frames with up to 16 spans to BS 5950.
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Free version of MasterKey Steel Beam Designer for the analysis and design of cantilever, simple, fixed and partialy fixed single span beams to BS 5950 and EuroCode 3.
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Composite Design

MasterBeam: Composite Design

 

MasterBeam: Composite Slim Floor

 

 

MasterBeam Composite Beam Design provides a powerful and extremely user friendly program for the design of primary, secondary and mixed primary-secondary composite beams with or without web openings.
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MasterBeam Composite SlimFLOR considers a wide range of design situations where metal decking or pre-cast concrete units are supported on the bottom flange of the beam.
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Timber

MasterBeam: Timber Design

 

 

 

 

MasterKey Timber Design and MasterBeam Timber Beam Designer represent a combined package offering exceptional power and flexibility to cover all your timber needs.
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Masonry

MasterKey: Masonry Design

 

 

 

 

MasterKey Masonry Design provides a powerful and extremely user-friendly program for the design of reinforced and unreinforced masonry walls and columns to IS 325 and BS 5628 Part 1 and Part 2.
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Retaining Walls

MasterKey: Retaining Walls

 

 

 

 

MasterKey Retaining Walls Design offers the most comprehensive program available for the design of both reinforced and unreinforced concrete and masonry retaining walls to CP2, BS 8002, BS 8110, IS 325 and BS 5628 Part1 and Part2.
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Drafting & Detailing

MasterRC: MasterRC Detailing

 

MasterRC: MasterRC Scheduler

 

MasterSeries: MasterCAD General Frames

MasterRC is an AutoCAD (R2006+) application providing a powerful yet easy to use set of tools for the accurate detailing of reinforced concrete.
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MasterRC Scheduler: The MasterRC bar scheduler is built into MasterRC, our RC detailing system for AutoCAD. It is also available as a stand alone package, enabling you to schedule directly from MasterKey Concrete Design and MasterKey Retaining Walls.
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MasterCAD General Frames is the drawing production and 3D model exchange centre of the MasterSeries, providing DXF drawings and a multitude of import and export capabilities.
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Lite Suite

MasterSeries: PowerPad

 

MasterSeries: Office Tools

 

 

MasterSeries PowerPad is a complete structural analysis and design suite and is the ideal choice for those who require a wide range of capabilities at an extremely affordable price.
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MasterSeries Office Tools is an add-on program enabling you to export results from all MasterSeries programs to Microsoft Office.  It also enables you to create templates for standard calculations using highly efficient and very flexible in-built analysis and design functions.
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