| Issue |
E3S Web Conf.
Volume 205, 2020
2nd International Conference on Energy Geotechnics (ICEGT 2020)
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| Article Number | 06004 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Minisymposium: Advances in Energy Geostructures Research (organized by Fleur Loveridge and Guillermo Narsilio) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202020506004 | |
| Published online | 18 November 2020 | |
Numerical modelling of different applications in Energy Foundation Technology
1 Plaxis b.v. – a Bentley Systems company, 2628 XK, Delft, Netherlands
2 Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, 3SR, 38000, Grenoble (France)
3 Delft University of Technology, 2628 CN Delft, Netherlands
* Corresponding author: tuan.bui@bentley.com
Energy foundation technology is expected to make a significant contribution to the use of renewable energy. In this context, this paper presents the use of Finite Element simulation using PLAXIS software for modelling different benchmark applications in Geothermal Foundations. An implicit fully-coupled numerical scheme with global adaptive time stepping are implemented to ensure computational efficiency and stability. Firstly, a transient simulation of thermal response tests [1], often used to estimate the thermal conductivity of ground and thermal resistance of pile, is presented. In the second part, a Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical analysis is performed to simulate the behavior of a single heat pile subject to a thermal load cycle [2]. Several ingredients (constitutive behavior, interface finite elements etc.) are employed to simulate soil-structure interactions. The obtained solutions are validated against available simulation and experimental data to demonstrate the applicability of the simulator to energy foundation analysis and design.
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