The performance analysis of energy piles in cross-anisotropic soils

Zhi Yong Ai, Jia Ming Ye and Yong Zhi Zhao

Energy, 2022, vol. 255, issue C

Abstract: Energy piles possess two important properties – structural load-bearing and ground heat exchangers, which is a cost-effective building energy-saving solution. Besides, natural soils generally exhibit anisotropic properties which impact the overall performance of energy piles. Therefore, the performance of energy piles in layered cross-anisotropic soils is investigated in this paper. Firstly, based on the basic equations of elasticity and heat transfer theory, the extended precise integration method (EPIM) is applied to acquire the thermo-elastic fundamental solution of layered cross-anisotropic soils, which will be utilized as the kernel function of the boundary element method (BEM). Then, the stiffness matrix equation of the energy pile considering the thermal strain and mechanical loads is derived with the aid of the finite element method (FEM). Afterwards, according to soil-pile deformation coordination conditions, the coupled BEM-FEM formulation to represent the soil-pile interaction is developed. Compared with in-situ tests and numerical simulations, the accuracy of the proposed method is verified. Finally, parametric analyses are conducted on the performance of energy piles subjected to the mechanical and temperature load simultaneously, and influences of pile-soil stiffness ratio, length-diameter ratio and soil cross-anisotropy on energy pile responses are discussed.

Keywords: Energy piles; Thermo-mechanical analysis; Coupled BEM-FEM; Cross-anisotropy; Extended precise integration method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (5)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544222014529
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:energy:v:255:y:2022:i:c:s0360544222014529

DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2022.124549

Access Statistics for this article

Energy is currently edited by Henrik Lund and Mark J. Kaiser

More articles in Energy from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().