Greenhouse gas emissions produced by fossil fuels are causing a slow change of the
climate's conditions. Air conditioning systems in engineering superstructures demand a …

Energy piles, a new type of heat exchanger that serves dual purposes, have gained
increasing attention due to the growing energy demand and corresponding carbon …

Thermally-activated (TA) piles are cost-effective technologies with the dual role of
transferring structural loads to the ground while exchanging heat with the surrounding soil …

The behaviour of conventional pile groups (eg closely spaced) that are subjected to
mechanical loads has been shown to be different from the behaviour of single isolated piles …

Energy piles are rapidly gaining acceptance around the world because they represent a
renewable and clean source of energy that can be used for the heating and cooling of …

The combined pile–raft foundation (CPRF) has been widely recognized as economic and
rational foundation for high-rise buildings when subjected to vertical loading because of its …

Energy pile groups generally show different behavior than single energy piles because of
the presence of rafts and the thermomechanical interaction between piles. This paper …

A coupled heat transfer and water flow model implemented in COMSOL and validated
against measurements from a tank scale test was applied to investigate the application of …

The thermal response of an energy field scale pile that is part of a pair of energy piles
spaced at a centre-to-centre distance of 3.5 m (ie, 6 D, where D is the pile diameter), was …

A small-scale pile has been developed in the laboratory to investigate the thermo-
mechanical behavior of energy piles subjected to a significant number of thermal cycles. The …