Thanking you sir for simplifying some of the basic concepts.

Meanwhile, being a beginner in buried pipeline analysis, I was doing some study for a while and waiting to hear more from Mr. Mariog regarding some unanswered part of my query, I further would like to present a stock of problems I am facing as below:

1.What are the various methods to carry out Seismic analysis of Buried Pipeline (running hundreds of KMs)? Can we somehow simulate in Caesar?
2. Which method gives the most promising results of such pipeline?
3. What are the various inputs required to proceed further (additional inputs apart from conventional inputs as required in Caesar)?
4. What would be the possible causes of failure and how to mitigate?
5. How to simulate underground faults crossing?, what input expected from civil ?
6. Generally what are the special stress recommendations in such cases? Any guidelines for placing thrust blocks in such cases ?

Anyone, please share your ideas on the above which would be helpful for others also who may be facing similar issues.

Thanks and Regards