Hii,

Its been just a month when I entered in ths field of pipeline.

though I have a little idea about this...but thught of to share with you. The anchor blocks are basically to absorb the displacements being generated in the piepline dut to the presuure / temperature of the fluid within. When the displacements cross the values which leads to the stress limits beyond the allowables, we provide the anchors. In fact, while doing pipeline design, the Anchor force calculations are also been performed.

In addition to this, in case of undergroung to above pipeline transition also we provide the anchor blocks.

Regards,