Publications by Alice Di Donna

Numerical study of the response of a group of energy piles under different combinations of thermo-mechanical loads

Lyesse Laloui, Alice Di Donna, Alessandro Francesco Rotta Loria

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 buildings, and the de-icing of infrastructures. This technology couples the structura ...

Elsevier2016

Experimental investigations of the soil-concrete interface: physical mechanisms, cyclic mobilisation and behaviour at different temperatures

Lyesse Laloui, Alessio Ferrari, Alice Di Donna

The behaviour of the pile-soil interface is important for the response of floating piles in terms of displacement and lateral friction. Regarding energy piles, which couple the structural roles of deep foundations with the principle of shallow geothermal e ...

National Research Council Canada2016

Numerical study on the suitability of centrifuge testing for capturing the thermal-induced mechanical behavior of energy piles

Lyesse Laloui, Alice Di Donna, Alessandro Francesco Rotta Loria

Currently, the suitability of centrifuge testing for capturing the thermal-induced mechanical behavior of full-scale energy piles has not been established, yet, despite their increasing worldwide development. Looking at this challenge, this paper investiga ...

American Society of Civil Engineers2015

Response of soil subjected to thermal cyclic loading: experimental and constitutive study

Lyesse Laloui, Alice Di Donna

The response of soil subjected to thermal cyclic loading plays an important role in certain engineering applications, such as high-level nuclear waste disposal, heat storage systems, CO2 sequestration plant and energy geostructures. For instance, energy ge ...

Elsevier2015

Numerical analysis of the geotechnical behaviour of energy piles

Lyesse Laloui, Alice Di Donna

Energy geostructures are rapidly gaining acceptance around the world; they represent a renewable and clean source of energy that can be used for the heating and cooling of buildings and for de-icing of infrastructures. This technology couples the structura ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Thermo-mechanical aspects of energy piles

Alice Di Donna

EPFL2014

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

Response to Comment on “Understanding the Thermo-Mechanical Behaviour of Energy Piles"

Lyesse Laloui, Alice Di Donna

2012

Understanding the Thermo-Mechanical Behaviour of Energy Piles

Lyesse Laloui, Alice Di Donna

The heating and cooling of buildings worldwide represent a large amount of the energy needs and are one of the significant sources of CO2. Decreasing the environmental impact of residential and office buildings is of crucial interest. Energy geostructures ...

2011