Imperial College London
Professor David Potts

Professor David Potts

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Senior Research Investigator
 
 
 
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505Skempton BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@inproceedings{Sailer:2019:e3sconf/20199216001,
author = {Sailer, E and Taborda, DMG and Zdravkovic, L and Potts, DM},
doi = {e3sconf/20199216001},
publisher = {EDP Sciences},
title = {Assessing the impact of vertical heat exchangers on the response of a retaining wall},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20199216001},
year = {2019}
}
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Shallow geothermal energy systems, e.g. borehole heat exchangers or thermo-active structures, provide sustainable space heating and cooling by exchanging heat with the ground. When installed within densely built urban environments, the thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) interactions occurring due to changes in ground temperature, such as soil deformation and development of excess pore water pressures, may affect the mechanical behaviour of adjacent underground structures. This paper investigates the effects of vertical heat exchangers installed near a deep basement by performing fully coupled THM finite element analyses using the Imperial College Finite Element Program. Different heat exchanger configurations are considered and their influence on the response of the basement wall is assessed in two-dimensional plane strain analyses, where different methods of modelling the heat sources in this type of analysis are employed to evaluate their effect on the temperature field and the non-isothermal soil response.
AU  - Sailer,E
AU  - Taborda,DMG
AU  - Zdravkovic,L
AU  - Potts,DM
DO  - e3sconf/20199216001
PB  - EDP Sciences
PY  - 2019///
SN  - 2267-1242
TI  - Assessing the impact of vertical heat exchangers on the response of a retaining wall
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20199216001
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/72554
ER  -
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