So I have been working as a design engineer for a little over a year on pipelines and have been on several different projects. I do a good bit of Caesar modeling, and have begun seeing patterns in how other engineers design mainline valves, vs how I have to design supports for them.

I see lots of design where a pipeline 45's out of the ground, has a support, valve, support, and then 45's back into the ground. The issue I always seem to run into is uplift of the pipeline on the supports. With this setup, Caesar always gives me large uplift forces, and many times does not even rest on the support during operation.

Is this a common issue among others, or am I doing something wrong? People continue to use this design whereas I imagine there are much better alternatives available.