Abstract. In this paper we consider the strongly damped wave equation with time dependent termsn , under some restrictions on β ε (t), γ(t) and growth restrictions on the non-linear term f . The function β ε (t) depends on a parameter ε, β ε (t) ε→0 −→ 0. We will prove, under suitable assumptions, local and global well posedness (using the uniform sectorial operators theory), the existence and regularity of pullback attractors {A ε (t) : t ∈ R}, uniform bounds for these pullback attractors, characterization of these pullback attractors and their upper and lower semicontinuity at ǫ = 0.