Alessandro Francesco Rotta Loria

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The role of thermal loads in the performance-based design of energy piles

Lyesse Laloui, Aurelio Muttoni, Alessandro Francesco Rotta Loria, Cristiano Garbellini, Matteo Bocco

Over the past two decades, a substantial amount of research has investigated the effects of thermal loads associated with the geothermal operation of energy piles on their mechanical response. Based on this research, consensus about the need for considerin ...

2019

Thermo-mechanical schemes for energy piles

Lyesse Laloui, Alessandro Francesco Rotta Loria, Alberto Minardi

Currently, schemes based on seminal empirical knowledge about energy piles subjected to mechanical and thermal loads are available to describe the response of such foundations. However, schemes based on theoretical principles may more closely reflect the p ...

Springer Verlag2019

Performance-based Design of Energy Pile Foundations

Alessandro Francesco Rotta Loria

Over the past twenty years, an increasing amount of research has been performed to understand the multiphysical behaviour and to address the geotechnical and structural design of so-called energy piles, i.e. deep foundations that can serve any superstructu ...

2019

Energy performance and economic feasibility of energy segmental linings for subway tunnels

Lyesse Laloui, Alessandro Francesco Rotta Loria, Benoît Claude Henri Cousin

This study focuses on the analysis of the energy performance and economic feasibility of so-called tunnel energy segmental linings: an innovative technology that couples the structural support role of the tunnel lining with the heating-cooling role of the ...

2019

Numerical investigation of the convection heat transfer driven by airflows in underground tunnels

Lyesse Laloui, Alessandro Francesco Rotta Loria, Margaux Marie Valérie Peltier

This study presents a fundamental investigation of the convection heat transfer phenomenon driven by airflows in underground tunnels, with reference to the development of the so-called thermal and velocity boundary layers. The purpose of the work is to exp ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Group action effects caused by various operating energy piles

Lyesse Laloui, Alessandro Francesco Rotta Loria

To date, no field data referring to various operating energy piles over time-scales of practical applications had been made available to investigate the thermally induced “group action”. This paper presents the results of a full-scale field test and a thre ...

2018

Analysis of the vertical displacement of energy pile groups

Lyesse Laloui, Alessandro Francesco Rotta Loria

Over the last fifty years, the interaction factor method has been widely used to address the vertical displacement and the increased deformation of conventional pile groups subjected to mechanical loads when group effects and interactions occur among the p ...

2018

Thermo-mechanical performance of energy pile groups

Alessandro Francesco Rotta Loria

Employing geostructures as structural supports and geomaterials as reservoirs for the extraction and storage of heat represent effective means to meet human activity needs since ancient times. This doctoral thesis focuses on the thermo-mechanical behaviour ...

EPFL2018

Effect of non-linear soil deformation on the interaction among energy piles

Lyesse Laloui, Alessandro Francesco Rotta Loria, Aurélien Vadrot

This study investigates the effect of non-linear soil deformation on the displacement interaction among energy piles. The work is based on interaction factor analyses of full-scale pile group tests, whose results are compared with experimental evidence. Th ...

Elsevier2017

The equivalent pier method for energy pile groups

Lyesse Laloui, Alessandro Francesco Rotta Loria

This study presents a method for estimating the average vertical displacement of energy pile groups subjected to thermal loads. The method consists of replacing any regular energy pile group with a single equivalent pier of the same length and an equivalen ...

2017

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