Civil buildings choose appropriate structural forms based on the height of the building, its functional use, seismic performance, and ground hydrological survey reports.
Common structural systems include brick-concrete structures, frames, shear walls, frames, shear walls, columns, trusses, grids, arches, suspension structures, and thin-walled spaces. Steel structures mainly include portal steel frames, frames, trusses, and grids, with different structural systems having different advantages and disadvantages and different forms of forces. In actual buildings, there are usually two or more combined structural forms.