Badr Ouzzine, Jean de Sauvage, Sahar Hemmati, Thibault Badinier, Matthieu Blanc, Thierry Dubreucq, Christophe Chevalier, Philippe Reiffsteck
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Abstract
Among the different solutions to meet the increasing need for renewable energies, energy geostructures, and particularly energy piles, are very promising. However, their dual role (structural support and energy harvester) raises design questions and safety issues. In addition, they are often placed within a groundwater flow and the influence of seepage on thermal loadings and mechanical response is still to be characterised. In this perspective, centrifuge modelling can play a significant role as in lots of geotechnical problems. In the present case, reduced scale models present a supplementary advantage since diffusion timescales are highly reduced. Scaling factor for time is 1/N² if scaling factor for lengths is 1/N. Nevertheless, the numerous phenomena to consider make it difficult to ensure the similarity between model and prototype. The present document derives and gathers all the scaling laws and attention points to keep in mind when centrifuge modelling energy piles.
期刊介绍:
International Journal of Physical Modelling in Geotechnics contains the latest research and analysis in all areas of physical modelling at any scale, including modelling at single gravity and at multiple gravities on a centrifuge, shaking table and pressure chamber testing and geoenvironmental experiments.