Structural Engineers keep society working, moving, and growing, by designing and maintaining our critical infrastructure. This includes the buildings we live and work in, the bridges that connect us together, and the dams and power structures that provide our energy. Research and training in the Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Civil Engineering is at the leading edge of efforts to build better, more resilient and more sustainable structures. Graduates of our program are prepared to be leaders in the design of the next generation of structures, with the necessary skills to address tomorrow’s complex infrastructure challenges.
Our twenty faculty members in structural engineering have specialties that cover the full range of structural expertise. Some key areas with multiple faculty members working in each include:
sustainable materials and construction
structural resistance to blasts and explosions
retrofit and rehabilitation of buildings and bridges
structural stability and design of steel structures and pipelines
earthquake resistance and resilience of buildings and bridges
advanced computer simulation including finite element analysis, distinct element method analysis, and nonlinear time-history analysis
concrete structures, mechanics, and durability including new 3D-printed concrete structures
effects of extreme wind load on structures
uses of machine learning for structural optimization
Our world-class facilities contain state-of-the-art full-scale structural testing equipment, including a shock tube for simulating blast loading, an extreme wind loading chamber, and four large-scale shaking tables to simulate earthquakes.
(OCICE) The Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Civil Engineering 