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Structural engineering being a field of engineering deals with the designing of structures that resist or support load. It is of often regarded as an area of expertise within civil engineering. Structural engineering is the structuring of a safe, economical, functional (to hold loads) and practical to reconstruct designs of building and large non-building structures. Structural engineering also involves designing of vehicles, machinery, and medical equipment or any other such items in which safety and function are the focal points of their structural designs. Structural building engineering is a branch of structural engineering which is more or less like architecture. Structural building engineering involves the basic use of causal scientific and mathematical principals on materials and forms to achieve the end functionality of resisting or holding loads. This form of engineering usually utilizes economical and not many fundamental structural elements to achieve complex structural systems without compromising its practicality.

Building engineering, industrial engineering pipeline engineering, bridge engineering, and particular structures such as aircrafts or vehicles is often the specified fields specialized in by structural engineers. The first engineer recorded in history books is Imhotep who built the step pyramid in 2700 BC for Pharoah Djosar. Most major structural masterpieces built by ancients are the pyramids as they are inherently stable, and perfectly and endlessly scaled. Structural engineering has mainly risen to its significance with closer examinations and assessments of structural failures such as the Dee Bridge and First Tay Rail Bridge.