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Lyesse Laloui
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Performance of energy piles foundation in hot-dominated climate: A case study in Dubai
Lyesse Laloui, Elena Ravera, Sofie Elaine ten Bosch
Energy piles represent an innovative technology that can help provide sustainable geothermal heating or cooling energy for thermal conditioning purposes. In hot-dominated climates, the interest is to inject heat in the ground and extract energy for space-c ...
2024Evolution of water content and suction of Opalinus Clay from recovery at the drilling site to handling in the laboratory
Lyesse Laloui, Alessio Ferrari, Angelica Tuttolomondo
Advanced geotechnical engineering applications, such as shale gas extraction, CO2 geological sequestration, and geological radioactive waste storage, often involve various types of shales located at significant depths. Shales exhibit mechanical properties ...
Oxford2024Insights from an extensive triaxial testing campaign on a shale for comparative site characterization of a deep geological repository
Lyesse Laloui, Alessio Ferrari, Eleonora Crisci
Several boreholes were drilled for site comparison of a deep geological repository (DGR) in Northern Switzerland. The main target of the exploration program was the >100m thick Opalinus Clay, the designated host rock encountered at approximately 450 to 100 ...
Amsterdam2024Impact of CO2-rich seawater injection on the flow properties of basalts
Lyesse Laloui, Eleni Stavropoulou, Cesare Griner
Permanent CO storage in basalts through mineralisation offers a promising solution for reducing carbon emissions and mitigating climate change. This study focuses on the impact of potential mineralisation on the flow properties of the basaltic material. Fl ...
2024Thermo-hydro-mechanical analysis of the complete lifetime of the bentonite barrier in the FEBEX in-situ test
Lyesse Laloui, Alessio Ferrari, Jose Antonio Bosch Llufriu, Yafei Qiao
The FEBEX test was a large-scale demonstration project for the deep geological disposal concept of nuclear waste involving bentonite seals that lasted 18 years. One of the objectives of the test was to evaluate the capabilities of numerical methods to prov ...
2023Thermo-hydro-mechanical behavior of energy barrettes: Field experiments and numerical simulations
Lyesse Laloui, Elena Ravera, Alessandro Francesco Rotta Loria
Over the past two decades, the thermo-hydro-mechanical behavior of earth-contact structures such as piles, walls, slabs, and tunnels, which simultaneously provide structural support and energy supply, has been studied through various field experiments and ...
ELSEVIER2023Mechanics, Modeling, and Upscaling of Biocemented Soils: A Review of Breakthroughs and Challenges
Lyesse Laloui, Dimitrios Terzis, Ray Harran
Biogeotechnical research has inspired revolutionary ideas to claim the status of a distinctive branch of geotechnical engineering. Most notably, underground carbonate mineralization, most commonly referred to as microbially induced carbonate precipitation ...
ASCE-AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS2023Addressing the challenges of homogeneity, quality control and waste handling in soil bio-cementation: A large-scale experiment
Lyesse Laloui, Dimitrios Terzis, Ray Harran
In an attempt to go beyond the conventional laboratory experiments widely reported in literature around the emerging technique of soil bio-cementation, this work addresses key challenges related to its large-scale application. Precisely, a state-of-the-art ...
JAPANESE GEOTECHNICAL SOC2023Pore-pressure coefficients for unsaturated soils: generalized effective stress approach
Lyesse Laloui, Alessio Ferrari, Angelica Tuttolomondo
Geotechnical problems with total stress changes occurring rapidly relative to the soil consolidation time can be conveniently addressed using an effective stress-based approach. For saturated states, analytical formulations of pore-pressure coefficients ad ...
CANADIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING2023Energy geotechnology: A new era for geotechnical engineering practice
Energy geotechnology provides low carbon, cost-effective and local energy solu-tions to structures and infrastructures, which opens a new era for the geotechnical engineering practice, by extending the conventional role of structural design to the ...
CRC Press2023