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Numerical study of the heating-cooling effects on the geotechnical behaviour of energy piles

Lyesse Laloui, Fabrice Dupray, Alice Di Donna

Energy geostructures represent a renewable and clean source of energy which can be used for heating and cooling of buildings and de-icing of infrastructures. This technology couples the structural role of geostructures with the energy supply, using the pri ...

Taylor & Francis Group2013

Analysis of time compression approximations

David Andrew Barry, Marc Parlange

TCA, time compression approximation, is a practical and often quite accurate tool to predict postponding infiltration for field applications. A modified approximation (MTCA) can be used just as easily and, in general, will reduce the error by about 50%. Th ...

American Geophysical Union2011

Non-axis-symmetrical punching shear around internal columns of RC slabs without transverse reinforcement

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Juan Sagaseta Albajar, Luca Tassinari

Most analytical approaches and available test data for punching shear in flat slabs assume axis-symmetrical conditions, which seems realistic for representing slabs supported on columns equally spaced in both orthogonal directions. However, in practice, th ...

Magazine of Concrete Research2011

Investigations on water retention behaviour of deformable soils

Lyesse Laloui, Alessio Ferrari, Mathieu Nuth, Simon Salager

The trend in modern unsaturated soil mechanics is to enhance the physical understanding of the soil water retention properties. It is agreed that the retention characteristics depend on the state of compaction and are related to the deformability of the me ...

Taylor & Francis Group2010

Using geotypes for landslide hazard assessment and mapping: a coupled field and GIS-based method

Aurèle Parriaux, Séverine Bilgot

Switzerland is exceptionally subjected to landslides; indeed, about 10% of its area is considered as unstable. Making this observation, its Department of the Environment (BAFU) introduces in 1997 a method to realize landslide hazard maps. It is routinely u ...

Copernicus GmbH2009

Understanding the thermo-mechanical response of heat exchanger piles

Lyesse Laloui, Hervé Péron, Mathieu Nuth

Although the adaptation of deep foundations into heat exchangers is receiving growing attention, geothermal research is focusing mostly on energy optimization aspects. Meanwhile, the primary bearing function of the foundation must remain unaltered. Also, p ...

International Centre for Computational Engineering2009

New basis for the constitutive modelling of aggregated soils

Lyesse Laloui, Laurent Vulliet, Azad Koliji

Natural and compacted soils are usually characterized by aggregation of particles. The mechanical behaviour of these materials depends on soil structure. The oedometric compression tests performed on aggregated samples presented here showed that these mate ...

Springer-Verlag2008

Poinçonnement symétrique des dalles en béton armé

Stefano Guandalini

Punching of reinforced concrete and prestressed slabs is usually a critical failure mode for the design and verification of structures such as flat slabs or bridge slabs. Although codes of practice propose several rules for common cases (usually with an em ...

EPFL2006

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