Structural Engineering Division

There was a time when human being put step on this planet “earth”. He was covering his body with leaves of plants. He was protecting himself from extremes of weather in caves of mountains or dwellings made of branches of trees. However, Allah Almighty has bestowed human being the wisdom and the sense of innovation and creativity for which he wants always a change of betterment and improvement. Dwellings changed from braches to stone to mud to bricks. The creation of cement and harnessing the strength of steel made a revolutionary change in the field of construction industry. The buildings were raised from just a few feet to hundreds of feet. In recent years, the high strength materials have been developed and computational power of computers advance mathematical techniques have lengthened the span of bridges and buildings from a few yards to hundreds of yards. The extent of size of projects has created a new construction management science.
High rise buildings are now being constructed now in all major cities of Pakistan. The disasters of earthquake in recent past have opened the eyes of all stakeholders of Pakistan and the development of a Pakistan building code has been completed. For sustain in the world, the sustainability of building materials also attract the serious attention of our researchers. The dissemination of knowledge for safe and low cost dwellings is indispensable now.
UET Taxila is one of the major centers of the country where a rich and full of enthusiasm and zeal team is carrying out research in all areas of structural engineering like Engineering Mechanics, Dynamics of Structures, Non-destructive testing of structures, Engineering materials, Use of smart and advance materials in structures, Bridge Engineering, etc. A foreign qualified holding PhD and MSc degrees team of structural Engineers are continuously engaged in research and development activities.