Abstract: This paper addresses an advanced and unified thermomechanical constitutive model for soils. Based on experimental evidence showing the nonlinear and irreversible thermomechanical responses of saturated soils, the constitutive ...

Abstract: Soil biocementation represents an emerging technique that has dominated the development of sustainable and innovative geotechnics during the past decade. Despite numerous studies focusing on peak strength behavior and the ...

Abstract: There is currently a lack of established calculation methods for the geotechnical design of heat exchanger piles, although the technology is experiencing a fast expansion. Instead of quantifying the effects of temperature ...

Abstract: Current geomechanical applications imply nonisothermal processes of unsaturated geomaterials, in most cases following stress paths different from the classical triaxial compression often used in laboratory testing. Although ...

Abstract: The behavior of an energy pile in a group is different from that of an isolated energy pile due to thermal and mechanical interactions. This study aims to extend the load transfer method to consider the mechanical and ...

Abstract: Moreover, a two-dimensional finite-element model has been developed by incorporating unloading-reloading responses into the monotonic load-transfer curves to define the soil–energy pile interaction during heat exchange ...

Abstract: 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 ...