Structural design involves studying how forces act on buildings and their components. Loads like weight are transferred through members like slabs, beams and columns down to the ground. An economical structure transfers loads through the shortest distance. Structures are designed to support various loads, both internal like self-weight and external like wind and seismic loads. Structural members must withstand these loads without significant deformation. Forces can be analyzed by their type, such as external or internal, and nature such as tensile, compressive or shear. Forces can act concurrently, parallel, or non-concurrently on structures. They are represented graphically with lines and arrows