This work outlines software packages that are capable of dealing with nonlinearity of the analyzing structure. Brief introduction of the software and its beginning in the history. Also explained the difference of linear and nonlinear analysis performed on the structure. Defined which software packages are for media and analyzing problem (structure). Similarly, descriptive study was done to understand advantages and disadvantages of main analyzing tools ANSYS, ABAQUS, SOLIDWORKS. In addition, the work looked into which one of the mentioned tools have its own distinguish functions. Finally, the results data of all three software were compared with each other.

Keywords: nonlinear analysis, numerical analysis, ANSYS, ABAQUS, SOLIDWORKS