Bio-inspired geotechnical engineering: principles, current work, opportunities and challenges

A Martinez, J Dejong, I Akin, A Aleali, C Arson… - …, 2022‏ - icevirtuallibrary.com
A broad diversity of biological organisms and systems interact with soil in ways that facilitate
their growth and survival. These interactions are made possible by strategies that enable …

A review on the performance of geothermal energy pile foundation, its design process and applications

AK Sani, RM Singh, T Amis, I Cavarretta - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Geothermal energy piles (GEPs) are an environmentally friendly energy source which utilise
the low-grade heat energy present in the shallow earth surface to provide heating and/or …

Group performance of energy piles under cyclic and variable thermal loading

J Fang, G Kong, Q Yang - Journal of Geotechnical and …, 2022‏ - ascelibrary.org
Energy piles, a new type of heat exchanger that serves dual purposes, have gained
increasing attention due to the growing energy demand and corresponding carbon …

Effects of pile and soil properties on thermally induced mechanical responses of energy piles

G Kong, J Fang, Z Lv, Q Yang - Computers and Geotechnics, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Energy piles, having the dual roles of exploiting geothermal energy and providing structural
stability, are creating large worldwide interest. This paper aims to provide knowledge on the …

A novel technique based on the improved firefly algorithm coupled with extreme learning machine (ELM-IFF) for predicting the thermal conductivity of soil

N Kardani, A Bardhan, P Samui, M Nazem… - Engineering with …, 2022‏ - Springer
Thermal conductivity is a specific thermal property of soil which controls the exchange of
thermal energy. If predicted accurately, the thermal conductivity of soil has a significant effect …

A critical review on the current knowledge of geothermal energy piles to sustainably climatize buildings

RP Cunha, PJ Bourne-Webb - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Greenhouse gas emissions produced by fossil fuels are causing a slow change of the
climate's conditions. Air conditioning systems in engineering superstructures demand a …

Review of soil thermal conductivity and predictive models

N Zhang, Z Wang - International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Accurate prediction of soil thermal conductivity is crucial to the design of geothermal related
structures such as ground source heat pumps (GSHPs), borehole thermal energy storage …

Review of analytical models for heat transfer by vertical ground heat exchangers (GHEs): A perspective of time and space scales

M Li, ACK Lai - Applied Energy, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Ground (or geothermal) heat exchangers are attracting a great deal of attention as a way of
using shallow geothermal energy. This paper provides not only a critical review but also a …

Energy geostructures: a review of analysis approaches, in situ testing and model scale experiments

F Loveridge, JS McCartney, GA Narsilio… - … for Energy and the …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
This position paper was developed by members of the task force on “Energy Geostructures”
of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) …

Distributed fiber optics sensors for civil engineering infrastructure sensing

K Soga, L Luo - Journal of Structural Integrity and Maintenance, 2018‏ - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing (DFOS) is one of the promising tools for structure
health monitoring. It can measure physical quantities (such as temperature, strain, and …