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SUMMARY:Understanding energy foundations
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Peter Bourne-Webb (IST)\nIn the paper “A framework for
  understanding energy pile behaviour”\, the authors outlined a simple sc
 hematic description of the expected response of a pile to heating and cool
 ing which was used to understand the results of field tests on thermally-a
 ctivated piles that had been carried out in London and in Lausanne.\nThis 
 presentation provides some context for the energy foundation concept in te
 rms of how it fits into the technology of shallow geothermal heating and c
 ooling\, discusses heating & cooling\, and thermo-mechanical performance o
 f energy piles that has been observed\, and then outlines the framework pr
 oposed in the paper. Finally\, the preliminary results of more recent stud
 ies undertaken to explore the limits applicability of the framework\, in p
 articular its inability to capture the impact of other thermal interaction
 s that also affect the changes in pile axial load and mobilized shaft resi
 stance generated by thermal loading of the pile – i.e. the soil coeffici
 ent of thermal expansion and the temperature field around the pile.\nBio: 
 Peter Bourne-Webb is assistant professor at the Instituto Superior Técnic
 o in Lisbon\, Portugal. Having spent his formative years in New Zealand\, 
 graduating from the University of Canterbury and working initially for Wor
 ks Consultancy Services (the former Ministry of Works)\, Peter moved to th
 e UK where he completed his MSc and PhD at Imperial College completing the
 ses under the supervision of Professor David Potts. Whilst living in the U
 K\, he also worked for the Geotechnical Consulting Group\, Card Geotechnic
 s and latterly\, Cementation Skanska where he began his involvement with t
 he energy foundation concept. In Portugal he is continuing to research ene
 rgy foundations. He recently contributed two chapters to the book “Energ
 y Geostructures” edited by Prof. Laloui and Alice Di Donna – one on th
 e observed response of energy geostructures and one on the planning/design
 \, delivery & commissioning of energy geostructures.
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