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SUMMARY:Building confidence in Energy Foundations - Echo Ouyang
DTSTART:20110127T193000Z
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CONTACT:Echo Ouyang
DESCRIPTION:Energy Piles present an efficient solution for long-term carbo
 n emission reduction and sustainable construction. However\, they have rec
 eived partial acceptance by industry. The major concern is on the impact o
 f cyclic thermal changes on the serviceability of energy pile foundations.
  In addition\, the evidence of successful long-term operation of energy pi
 le systems has been anecdotal\, and there is no design tool available to s
 upport their safe usage. A hybrid load transfer model has been applied to 
 investigate the load-settlement behavior of the single energy pile during 
 thermal energy exchange processes. Back-analysis results in terms of the t
 hermal and mechanical response of energy piles show good agreement with fi
 eld test results from Lambeth College in London.
LOCATION:M3 Second Court\, St John's College (Dr. Sue Colwell's Office)
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