The design of reinforced concrete structures with the presence of geometric or statics discontinuities using the concept of strut and tie models has greatly increased its applicability in recent years. The existing Standards and Guidelines for this kind of project seem, however, be insufficient and often conservative. This thesis aims are to present a methodology that includes aspects of automatic generation of topology by topological optimization and assessment of safety by the reliability analysis of the strut and tie models applied to plane reinforced concrete structures. The first aspect is to assist the structural designer in the conception of the structural topological model with the use of topological optimization techniques that facilitate the visualization of the flow forces in the structure, assisting in the design of an optimal topology for the model. The second aspect is the proposal of a performance criterion for models based on the assessment of its security by reliability analysis. The results obtained and submitted through the examples of this work allow to conclude that the proposed technique leads to a substantial improvement in the design and conception and automatic generation of topological models for the strut and tie models, as well as the security evaluation criterion proposed allows the structural designer to consider issues related to obtaining the probability of failure and measurement of failure modes of the structure.