Energy geostructures have been a tremendous innovation in the field of foundation engineering and are rapidly spreading all around the world. They enable a renewable and clean source of energy to be produced, which can be used for the heating and cooling of buildings. This technology links the structural role of geostructures with the energy supply, using the principle of shallow geothermal energy. This book provides a sound grounding in this challenging area.
The authors of this book discuss the recent advances and current knowledge in the geotechnical design of energy geostructures.
Contents
Part I Introduction
- 1. Energy geostructures and related thermo-mechanical behaviour of soils
Part II Physical modeling of energy piles at different scales
- 2. Experiences with the real scale energy piles testing
- 3. Observed response of energy geo-structures
- 4. Behaviour of heat exchanger piles from physical modeling
- 5. Physical modeling of energy piles in centrifuge testing
Part III Numerical modeling of energy geostructures
- 6. Numerical analysis of seasonal heat storage in energy geo-structures: pile foundations, tunnels and bridges
- 7. Numerical analysis of bearing capacity of a thermo-active pile under thermal cyclic solicitation
- 8. Energy geostructures in unsaturated soils
- 9. Energy geostructures in glacial and tropical climatic areas
- 10. Impact of transient heat diffusion of thermo-active piles in surrounded soil
- 11. Numerical modeling of heat exchanger piles used for bridges deicing
Part IV Engineering practice
- 12. Current practice for the design of energy piles
- 13. Thermopile: a numerical tool for the design of energy piles
- 14. A case study : the Dock Midfield of Zurich airport
Book Details
- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Wiley-ISTE; 1 edition (August 19, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 184821572X
- ISBN-13: 978-1848215726
- Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.1 x 1 inches
- List price: $135.00