Thrust Blocks - When? 1

[ClearyT]

I am currently involved in the design of a foul sewerage rising main [160mm OD HDPE (PE100) SDR 17.6 - 10 Bar Pipe], we are currently proposing to you use electrofusion (as opposed to Butt-Welding) at the joints.
A fellow collegue informed me that thrust blocks / Self anchoring joints are not required when you weld HDPE pipelines? Is this true? I know that 10 Bar is a relatively high pressure rating that we have.

Is their any UK guidance documents in relation to this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanking You.

 

[Ussuri]

A similar topic was discussed a couple of weeks ago. Have a looky here:

thread194-149756

 

[BarryEng]

To Ussuri
After reading your thread, I also put some comments on thread194-149756.

Barry Eng