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Evaluating the geothermal potential of a metro station considering its airflow conditions

Lyesse Laloui, Elena Ravera, Sofie Elaine ten Bosch

This study examines the influence of the internal air environment on the geothermal potential of a metro station in Bucharest with a standard design commonly found in metro stations. It addresses the challenges posed by factors such as train movement on ai ...

2025

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 ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2024

Performance of complex energy geostructures

Lyesse Laloui, Elena Ravera, Alessandro Francesco Rotta Loria

2024

Assessing and exploiting the interaction between ventilation and geothermal systems in an underground data centre

Lyesse Laloui, Elena Ravera, Sofie Elaine ten Bosch

2024

Thermo-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 ...

ELSEVIER2023

Thermal performance of energy barrettes in an urban environment

Lyesse Laloui, Elena Ravera, Alessandro Francesco Rotta Loria

TU Delft OPEN Publishing2023

Failure mechanism of fine-grained soil-structure interface for energy piles

Lyesse Laloui, Elena Ravera

The response of the soil-structure interface can significantly affect the performance of any geotechnical structure. Thermal cycles are a new factor that influence the response to all structures that have an energy function in addition to the structural on ...

2022

Cyclic thermomechanical behaviour of pile-soil interface and design methods for energy pile foundations

Elena Ravera

Energy piles are shallow geothermal systems integrated into structures already required for structural functions of civil works that provide both geothermal energy supply and structural support to the built environments. This research work is driven by the ...

EPFL2021

The interface failure mechanism of energy piles

Lyesse Laloui, Elena Ravera

2021

Cyclic thermomechanical response of fine-grained soil-concrete interface for energy piles applications

Lyesse Laloui, Elena Ravera, Melis Sütman

Understanding the behaviour of soil-structure interfaces is critical for addressing the analysis and design of energy geostructures. In this study, the interface failure mechanism of energy piles (where a shear band is detached from the surrounding soil th ...

2020