This special issue of Soils and Rocks includes 8 state-of-the-art research studies, a case history, and 2 review papers on the behavior of energy geostructures and the thermo-hydro-mechanical behavior of soils. Energy geostructures are an emerging technology, which permit geotechnical engineering structures to be used as geothermal heat exchangers as we...
View ArticleChemical stabilization for mining tailings is a promising alternative to enable their use as construction materials. For this, it is necessary to evaluate the behavior of these composites to ensure minimum design requirements. This research aims to demonstrate that an addition of 15% of polymeric solution content, corresponding to 6% of polymer by taili...
View ArticleThe presence of unsaturated flow in tropical lateritic soils of unknown hydromechanical behavior may lead to severe geotechnical problems. It is known that soil-water characteristic curves (SWCC) are a valuable tool to define this behavior and facilitate the suction estimation, acting on tests performed with no control of such parameter. This article ai...
View ArticleThis paper provides preliminary results on geothermal energy piles (GEPs) for the thermal climatization of structures founded on the typical tropical unsaturated soil of the central region of Brazil. The research employed a series of prototype simulations of a thermal pile embedded into a calibration chamber with compacted unsaturated soil. It closely s...
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