The energy crisis scenario currently going on in Brazil, along with the need to reduce greenhouse emissions, lead to an urgent need to design buildings with greater energy efficiency. Shallow geothermal energy surges as a sustainable alternative to reduce the electricity consumption in buildings related to air conditioning and water heating systems. In ...
View ArticleThe use of shallow geothermal energy through energy piles for the air-conditioning of buildings is increasing worldwide. This type of renewable energy technology is still not utilized in Brazil, where the hot dominating weather regions and the air cooling demand predominate. In this case of unbalanced heat transfer to the ground, the efficiency of the s...
View ArticleThis study presents the results from centrifuge modeling experiments performed to understand the effects of temperature changes on the vertical pullout capacity of scalemodel torpedo piles embedded in soft clay layers. The model torpedo pile is a pointed stainless-steel cylinder with fins at the top, installed by self-weight to the base of a clay layer ...
View ArticleThe paper presents a comparative study between semi-empirical methods for the estimation of pre-consolidation pressure and undrained shear strength from Piezocone (CPTu) data. The first method, proposed by Massad, was developed from observing the variation of these parameters with depth; the second method, proposed by Mayne, was developed from simplific...
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