Characterisation of ground thermal and thermo-mechanical behaviour for shallow geothermal energy applications

A Vieira, M Alberdi-Pagola, P Christodoulides, S Javed… - Energies, 2017‏ - mdpi.com
Increasing use of the ground as a thermal reservoir is expected in the near future. Shallow
geothermal energy (SGE) systems have proved to be sustainable alternative solutions for …

Energy geotechnics: Advances in subsurface energy recovery, storage, exchange, and waste management

JS McCartney, M Sánchez, I Tomac - Computers and Geotechnics, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Energy geotechnics involves the use of geotechnical principles to understand and engineer
the coupled thermo-hydro-chemo-mechanical processes encountered in collecting …

Experimental and numerical investigations of the behaviour of a heat exchanger pile

L Laloui, M Nuth, L Vulliet - International journal for numerical …, 2006‏ - Wiley Online Library
The geothermal use of concrete geostructures (piles, walls and slabs) is an environmentally
friendly way of cooling and heating buildings. With such geothermal structures, it is possible …

Experimental study of thermal effects on the mechanical behaviour of a clay

C Cekerevac, L Laloui - … for numerical and analytical methods in …, 2004‏ - Wiley Online Library
The paper presents the results of an experimental study of thermal effects on the mechanical
behaviour of a saturated clay. The study was performed on CM clay (Kaolin) using a …

Soil–environment interactions in geotechnical engineering

A Gens - Géotechnique, 2010‏ - icevirtuallibrary.com
The range of problems that geotechnical engineers must face is increasing in complexity
and scope. Often, complexity arises from the interaction between the soil and the …

Experimental investigations of the soil–concrete interface: physical mechanisms, cyclic mobilization, and behaviour at different temperatures

A Di Donna, A Ferrari, L Laloui - Canadian Geotechnical …, 2016‏ - cdnsciencepub.com
Behaviour of the pile–soil interface is important to correctly predict the response of floating
piles in terms of displacement and lateral friction. Regarding energy piles, which couple the …

Response of soil subjected to thermal cyclic loading: experimental and constitutive study

A Di Donna, L Laloui - Engineering Geology, 2015‏ - Elsevier
The response of soil subjected to thermal cyclic loading plays an important role in certain
engineering applications, such as high-level nuclear waste disposal, heat storage systems …

A double structure generalized plasticity model for expansive materials

M Sánchez, A Gens… - … Journal for numerical …, 2005‏ - Wiley Online Library
The constitutive model presented in this work is built on a conceptual approach for
unsaturated expansive soils in which the fundamental characteristic is the explicit …

Cam-Clay plasticity. Part IX: On the anisotropy, heterogeneity, and viscoplasticity of shale

RI Borja, Q Yin, Y Zhao - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
We investigate three aspects of material behavior in this ninth installment of the Cam-Clay
series, namely, anisotropy, heterogeneity, and viscoplasticity. The main focus of the paper is …

Thermoplasticity and strain localization in transversely isotropic materials based on anisotropic critical state plasticity

SJ Semnani, JA White, RI Borja - International Journal for …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Geomaterials such as soils and rocks are inherently anisotropic and sensitive to temperature
changes caused by various internal and external processes. They are also susceptible to …