For example, a package may be impacted by an object being dropped onto it (vertical load) or impacted by freight sliding into it (horizontal load).

The absence of vertical support struts reduces horizontal loads created by periodical river flooding.

It may also be used for static conditions if the value of the horizontal load is taken as zero.

A significant horizontal load due to braking and traction of 7000 KN has conditioned the design of the fixed support at one of the extremes.

A shear wall, in its simplest definition, is a wall where the entire material of the wall is employed in the resistance of both horizontal and vertical loads.

However in the case of wind turbines, due to the high wind and environmental loads experienced there is a significant horizontal dynamic load that needs to be appropriately restrained.

Because of this, the perimeter pillars on the facade do not need to be large as they only have to bear the horizontal loads.

Beams generally carry vertical forces, but can also be used to carry horizontal loads (Those loads can result from wind or an earthquake).

Beams generally carry vertical gravitational forces but can also be used to carry horizontal loads (i.e., loads due to an earthquake or wind).

At the section that is still standing the central hinge has bent down indicating an imbalance between the vertical and horizontal loads and a failure by outward spreading of the arch.