Advances in the geotechnical design of energy pile foundations.
Event details
| Date | 08.11.2012 |
| Hour | 17:00 › 18:00 |
| Speaker | Alice Di Donna, PhD Student at LMS |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
The heating and cooling of buildings represent a large amount of the energy needs and are one of the signi cant sources of CO2. Energy geostructures are a sustainable solution to this problem and constitute a renewable and environment-friendly resource. Any structure in contact with the ground can be used to satisfy the energy requirements of the overall facility to which the structures belong. Energy piles are the most widely used. A system of pipes installed within the concrete, with a heat carrier uid that circulates through it, can extract heat from the ground to satisfy the need for heat during the winter and can expel excess heat resulting from air conditioning during the summer. Consequently, the geostructure is subjected to an additional thermal load, which results in additional stresses, strains and settlements to be considered in the design practice. The recent advancements concerning the long term thermo-mechanical behaviour of energy piles and the e ects of temperature on the di erent aspects involved in their geotechnical design are presented.
Practical information
- General public
- Registration required
Organizer
- LMS-ENAC
Contact
- B. Tinguely