Energy Geostructures - Innovation in Underground Engineering

Energy geostructures are a tremendous innovation in the field of foundation engineering and are spreading rapidly throughout the world. They allow the procurement of a renewable and clean source of energy which can be used for heating and cooling buildings. This technology couples the structural role of geostructures with the energy supply, using the principle of shallow geothermal energy. This book provides a sound basis in the challenging area of energy geostructures.
The objective of this book is to supply the reader with an exhaustive overview on the most up-to-date and available knowledge of these structures. It details the procedures that are currently being applied in the regions where geostructures are being implemented. The book is divided into three parts, each of which is divided into chapters, and is written by the brightest engineers and researchers in the field. After an introduction to the technology as well as to the main effects induced by temperature variation on the geostructures, Part 1 is devoted to the physical modeling of energy geostructures, including in situ investigations, centrifuge testing and small-scale experiments. The second part includes numerical simulation results of energy piles, tunnels and bridge foundations, while also considering the implementation of such structures in different climatic areas. The final part concerns practical engineering aspects, from the delivery of energy geostructures through the development of design tools for their geotechnical dimensioning. The book concludes with a real case study.
 
Contents
 
Part 1. Physical Modeling of Energy Piles at Different Scales
1. Soil Response under Thermomechanical Conditions Imposed by Energy Geostructures, Alice Di Donna and Lyesse Laloui.
2. Full-scale In Situ Testing of Energy Piles, Thomas Mimouni and Lyesse Laloui.
3. Observed Response of Energy Geostructures, Peter Bourne-Webb.
4. Behavior of Heat-Exchanger Piles from Physical Modeling, Anh Minh Tang, Jean-Michel Pereira, Ghazi Hassen and Neda Yavari.
5. Centrifuge Modeling of Energy Foundations, John S. McCartney.
Part 2. Numerical Modeling of Energy Geostructures
6. Alternative Uses of Heat-Exchanger Geostructures, Fabrice Dupray, Thomas Mimouni and Lyesse Laloui.
7. Numerical Analysis of the Bearing Capacity of Thermoactive Piles Under Cyclic Axial Loading, Maria E. Suryatriyastuti, Hussein Mroueh , Sébastien Burlon and Julien Habert.
8. Energy Geostructures in Unsaturated Soils, John S. McCartney, Charles J.R. Coccia , Nahed Alsherif and Melissa A. Stewart.
9. Energy Geostructures in Cooling-Dominated Climates, Ghassan Anis Akrouch, Marcelo Sanchez and Jean-Louis Briaud.
10. Impact of Transient Heat Diffusion of a Thermoactive Pile on the Surrounding Soil, Maria E. Suryatriyastuti, Hussein Mroueh and Sébastien Burlon.
11. Ground-Source Bridge Deck De-icing Systems Using Energy Foundations, C. Guney Olgun and G. Allen Bowers.
Part 3. Engineering Practice
12. Delivery of Energy Geostructures, Peter Bourne-Webb with contributions from Tony Amis,
Jean-Baptiste Bernard, Wolf Friedemann, Nico Von Der Hude, Norbert Pralle, Veli Matti Uotinen and Bernhard Widerin.
13. Thermo-Pile: A Numerical Tool for the Design of Energy Piles, Thomas Mimouni and Lyesse Laloui.
14. A Case Study: The Dock Midfield of Zurich Airport, Daniel Pahud.
 
About the Authors
 
Lyesse Laloui is Chair Professor, Head of the Soil Mechanics, Geoengineering and CO2 storage Laboratory and Director of Civil Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Alice Di Donna is a researcher at the Laboratory of Soil Mechanics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland.

List of contents

Preface xiii
 
Lyesse LALOUI and Alice DI DONNA
 
PART 1. PHYSICAL MODELING OF ENERGY PILES AT DIFFERENT SCALES 1
 
Chapter 1. Soil Response under Thermomechanical Conditions Imposed by Energy Geostructures 3
Alice DI DONNA and Lyesse LALOUI
 
1.1. Introduction 4
 
1.2. Thermomechanical behavior of soils 5
 
1.2.1. Thermomechanical behavior of clays 6
 
1.3. Constitutive modeling of the thermomechanical behavior of soils 12
 
1.3.1. The ACMEG-T model 12
 
1.4. Acknowledgments 18
 
1.5. Bibliography 18
 
Chapter 2. Full-scale In Situ Testing of Energy Piles 23
Thomas MIMOUNI and Lyesse LALOUI
 
2.1. Monitoring the thermomechanical response of energy piles 23
 
2.1.1. Measuring strains and temperature along the piles 23
 
2.1.2. Measuring pile tip compression 27
 
2.1.3. Monitoring the behavior of the soil 27
 
2.2. Description of the two full-scale in situ experimental sites 28
 
2.2.1. Single full-scale test pile 28
 
2.2.2. Full-scale test on a group of energy piles 31
 
2.2.3. Testing procedure 32
 
2.3. Thermomechanical behavior of energy piles 36
 
2.3.1. General methodology 36
 
2.3.2. Thermomechanical response of the single test pile 38
 
2.3.3. Thermomechanical response of a group of energy piles 40
 
2.4. Conclusions 42
 
2.5. Bibliography 42
 
Chapter 3. Observed Response of Energy Geostructures 45
Peter BOURNE-WEBB
 
3.1. Overview of published observational data sources 45
 
3.2. Thermal storage and harvesting 46
 
3.2.1. Overview 46
 
3.2.2. Energy injection/extraction rates 47
 
3.2.3. Thermal fields 52
 
3.3. Thermomechanical effects 58
 
3.3.1. Overview 58
 
3.3.2. Structural effects 58
 
3.3.3. Soil-structure interactions 62
 
3.4. Summary 65
 
3.5. Acknowledgments 66
 
3.6. Bibliography 67
 
Chapter 4. Behavior of Heat-Exchanger Piles from Physical Modeling 79
Anh Minh TANG, Jean-Michel PEREIRA, Ghazi HASSEN and Neda YAVARI
 
4.1. Introduction 79
 
4.2. Physical modeling of pile foundations 80
 
4.2.1. Boundary conditions 80
 
4.2.2. Mechanical loading system 81
 
4.2.3. Monitoring 81
 
4.2.4. Pile's behavior 82
 
4.3. Physical modeling of a heat-exchanger pile 83
 
4.3.1. Experimental setup 83
 
4.3.2. Mechanical behavior of a pile under thermomechanical loading 85
 
4.3.3. Heat transfer 89
 
4.3.4. Soil-pile interface 90
 
4.3.5. Lessons learned from physical modeling of a heat-exchanger pile 91
 
4.4. Conclusions 94
 
4.5. Acknowledgments 94
 
4.6. Bibliography 94
 
Chapter 5. Centrifuge Modeling of Energy Foundations 99
John S. MCCARTNEY
 
5.1. Introduction 99
 
5.2. Background on thermomechanical soil-structure interaction 100
 
5.3. Centrifuge modeling concepts 101
 
5.4. Centrifuge modeling components 101
 
5.4.1. Centrifuge model fabrication and characterization 101
 
5.4.2. Experimental setup 103
 
5.5. Centrifuge modeling tests for semi-floating foundations 105
 
5.5.1. Soil details 105
 
5.5.2. Foundation A: isothermal load tests to failure 106
 
5.5.3. Foundation B: thermomechanical stress-strain modeling 110
 
5.6. Conclusions 113
 
5.7. Acknowledgments 113
 
5.8. Bibliography 114
 
PART 2. NUMERICAL MODELING OF ENERGY GEOSTRUCTURES 117
 
Chapter 6. Alternative Uses of Heat-Exchanger Geostructures 119
Fabrice DUPRAY, Thomas M

About the author

Lyesse Laloui, Chair Professor and Head Soil mechanics, Geoengineering and CO2 storage Laboratory; Director of the Civil Engineering; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. Alice Di Donna, Researcher at the Laboratory of Soil Mechanics; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Summary

Providing a sound grounding in this challenging area, Energy Geostructures discusses the recent advances and current knowledge in the geotechnical design of energy geostructures. Energy geostructures have been a tremendous innovation in the field of foundation engineering and are rapidly spreading all around the world.

Product details

• Authors: Alice Di Donna, Lyesse Laloui
• Assisted by: Di Donna (Editor), Di Donna (Editor), Alice Di Donna (Editor), Lyess Laloui (Editor), Lyesse Laloui (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley & Sons
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.01.2014
• EAN: 9781848215726
• ISBN: 978-1-84821-572-6
• No. of pages: 318
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 250 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 674 g
• Series: ISTE; ISTE
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; Geotechnik, Bauingenieur- u. Bauwesen, Civil Engineering & Construction, Soil Constructions & Geotechnics, Grundbau / Geotechnik