Strut and tie models are ultimately discrete representations of the stress fields in the structural elements of reinforced concrete close to failure and they are meant to help the engineer to design a consistent project of all structural elements. This work aims to develop a program of topological optimisation that generates and allows the visualisation of a strut and tie model for structural elements of reinforced concrete. The generated model helps the project engineer to understand the load paths inside the element. Initially the user should have as data a refined finite element mesh. Starting from this point the program calculates the stress fields through a linear elastic finite element analysis. The techniques used for topological optimisation in this work are namely the hard-kill method and the method of removal. In the first process, the elements with low stress levels, that are not being used efficiently, have their elasticity modules abruptly reduced, while in the method of removal, these elements are removed from the mesh. Either to modify the elasticity module of the element or to remove the element from the mesh the principal stresses in each element are compared with a reference stress defined as a fraction of the largest principal stress in the mesh. If the principal stress in the element is smaller than this above mentioned reference stress the element has its elasticity module modified or is removed, depending on the method. The distribution of stresses in the elements can be followed by the user through the module of visualisation of the program and the process of topological optimisation is repeated until the specified convergence criterion is reached.