Hi,

This is not directly related to Caesar II software; my question is with regards to the necessity of combining WIND and Wave impacts on the same load cases for offshore piping systems; B31.3 does not suggest combining 2 different occasional events in one load case however, this seems to be an unwritten rule that I see so many stress engineers consider W+T+P+WIND+WAVE case as the governing scenario to assess the loads/stresses instead of assuming W+T+P+WIND and W+T+P+WAVE separately. Can anyone give a reasonable explanation for this plaese?


many thanks in advance,