Thermoactive foundations for sustainable buildings /

Thermoactive foundations for sustainable buildings / John Scott McCartney, Moncef Krarti, Byung Chang Kwag, Abdelmalek Bouazza, Rao Martand Singh, Mohammed Faizal.

This monograph documents the current of state-of-art in Thermo- Active Foundations (TAFs) suitable for efficiently and sustainably heat and cooling buildings. TAFs, also referred to as thermal or energy piles, offer innovative and sustainable alternatives to ground-source heat pumps as well as other...

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Main Authors: McCartney, John Scott, 1979- (Author), Krarti, Moncef. (Author), Kwag, Byung Chang. (Author), Bouazza, Abdelmalek. (Author), Singh, Rao Martand. (Author), Faizal, Mohammed. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, [New York] (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : Momentum Press, 2015.
Series:Technologies for sustainable life.
Subjects:
Geothermal space heating.
Foundations.
Thermopiles.
Buildings > Thermal properties.
Sustainable buildings.
Libros electronicos.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Structural performance of thermo-active foundations
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Thermo-elastic soil-structure interaction
  • 1.3 Design criteria
  • 1.4 Thermo-mechanical load transfer analysis
  • 1.4.1 Assumptions and basic aspects of the model
  • 1.4.2 Load-transfer curves
  • 1.4.3 Mechanical load transfer analysis
  • 1.4.4 Thermo-mechanical T-z analyses
  • 1.4.5 Model evaluation: impact of temperature changes
  • 1.4.6 Model evaluation: impact of boundary conditions
  • 1.4.7 Model evaluation: head restraint effects
  • 1.4.8 Results from thermo-active foundations
  • 1.5 Final comments
  • 1.6 Acknowledgments
  • 1.7 References
  • 2. Thermal analysis of thermoactive foundations
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Thermal modeling of TAFs
  • 2.2.1 Description of TAF thermal modeling
  • 2.2.2 Experimental validation
  • 2.2.3 Sensitivity analysis
  • 2.2.4 Impact of thermal piles on soil temperature distribution
  • 2.3 Building foundation heat transfer
  • 2.4 Thermal response of TAFs
  • 2.5 Energy analysis of buildings with TAF systems
  • 2.5.1 Application of TAFs for office buildings
  • 2.5.2 Application of TAFs to residential buildings
  • 2.6 Summary and conclusions
  • 2.7 References
  • 3. Full scale geothermal energy pile studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Site ground conditions
  • 3.3 Instrumentation of full-scale geothermal energy piles
  • 3.3.1 Single geothermal energy pile instrumentation
  • 3.3.2 Instrumentation of group of geothermal energy piles
  • 3.4 Heating test for single pile case
  • 3.5 Mechanical tests
  • 3.6 Dual pile system
  • 3.6.1 Concrete curing temperature
  • 3.6.2 Strains during concrete curing
  • 3.7 Conclusions
  • 3.8 Acknowledgments
  • 3.9 References
  • About the authors.

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