CESDb is a website founded by engineers for engineers. Our mission is to provide a software library where engineers, researchers and academics can easily access free or shareware civil engineering software. We are currently listing 569 programs under 12 categories with descriptions, screenshots and manuals if available. We always try to keep the site up-to-date and new software titles added regularly.

• Computer Aided Design
• Construction Management
• Earthquake Engineering
• Environmental Engineering
• General Tools
• Geotechnical Engineering
• Hydraulic Engineering
• Structural Analysis
• Structural Design
• Surveying
• Transportation Engineering
• Water Resources

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Geoscientific Analyses, Mapping, Data Display and Data Management

GaeaSynergy is an application suite for geoscientific analyses, mapping, data display and data management. The program can be used to evaluate contaminants, soil and rock properties, mineral deposits, and oil and gas deposits.

Boring, Borehole and Well Logs

The WinLoG extension module of GaeaSynergy can be used to quickly and easily create, edit and print boring logs, borehole logs and well logs for a variety of industries.

Environmental Site Assessment

Pocket ESA has been designed to minimize the amount of time required to generate standard Environmental Site Assessment reports and to maximize the flexibility of the final report.

Pile Capacity, Design Load Estimation and Pile Group Settlement

The GEMS – Pile Group Settlement Analysis software uses modern analytical techniques based on the subsurface soil profile, pile dimensions and group geometry to estimate the pile group settlement.

Hydrodynamic / Hydraulic Modelling

ANUGA Hydro is a free and open source software tool for hydrodynamic modelling, suitable for predicting the consequences of hydrological disasters such as riverine flooding, storm surges and tsunamis.

Composite Beam Design

FBEAM is a fully featured composite beam design software that allows you to design composite and non-composite cellular and plain beams to multiple design codes.

Soil USCS & AASHTO Classification

Dartis Classify is a soil USCS & AASHTO classification software. Easily classify soils by USCS and AASHTO methods and export results to Excel.

Elastic and Plastic Resistance of Open and Thin Walled Sections

Thinwallres Open&Closed application allows to determine the resistance capacity of open and closed thin-walled sections

Critical Loads and Analysis of Imperfect Structures

The following application allows determining the resistance capacity of compressed and deflected pieces with a double tee section, susceptible to lateral buckling.

Thin Walled Sections

ThinWallRes allows to determine the resistance capacity of open thin-walled sections.

Surface-water Modeling System

SMS (Surface-water Modeling System) is a complete program for building and simulating surface water models from Aquaveo.

Visualize, Reference, Analyze Water Distribution Networks

Online web application for visualizing, referencing, and analyzing water distribution models.