Energy geotechnics involves the use of geotechnical principles to understand and engineer
the coupled thermo-hydro-chemo-mechanical processes encountered in collecting …

Energy geostructures have been identified as a cost-effective mitigating strategy for the
adverse impact of climate change. Operation of energy geostructures results in temperature …

Previous studies of shear behaviour at different suctions and temperatures focused mainly
on recompacted soils. Limited attention has been paid to intact soil. In this paper, the shear …

Thermally-activated (TA) piles are cost-effective technologies with the dual role of
transferring structural loads to the ground while exchanging heat with the surrounding soil …

This paper introduces an unconventional constitutive model for soils, which deals with a
unified thermo‐mechanical modelling for unsaturated soils. The relevant temperature and …

Soils are continuously subjected to thermal loads–and thus to temperature variations–as a
consequence of natural or anthropogenic perturbations that involve the transfer of heat. For …

The thermal volume change of soils is typically interpreted using the stress history and
changes in yield stress with temperature (thermal softening). However, the path followed to …

The deformation and strength of soils change significantly under thermal loading, which
affects the safety and stability of thermal-related geotechnical infrastructures. Although …

A triaxial cell was developed to investigate the shear strength of unsaturated silt under
elevated temperatures and high suction magnitudes. The results from a series of drained …

The thermal volumetric behaviour of soils plays a critical role in designing energy
geostructures, withstanding temperature fluctuations. This study examined, for the first time …