[iancmceachern]

In mechanical engineering we call this the load path. You want to be sure 1- you know the load path 2- the load path doesn't go where you don't want it to and 3- everything in the load path is strong enough.

A good example of a famous failure if this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collap...