Thermo-pile software

Laboratory of soil mechanics (LMS)

Thermo-Pile Software

Thermo-Pile, is based on a discretization of the pile in a number of segments. It enables to consider various soil layers, as well as the variation of the soil properties and temperature with depth. An iterative procedure (finite difference scheme) allows quantifying the thermal strains and the associated additional efforts when the pile is subjected to both axial mechanical loading and temperature changes.The procedure has been coded in the Java language. The numerical tool is based on the form of an interactive application with pop-up menus and windows for input data. Temperatures resulting from energy design of the heat-exchanger pile system can be used as input parameters of the present numerical tool. The calculation can be directly run and the results (stored in text files) can be visualized on various graphs plotted automatically, showing in particular the mobilized friction (with respect to the soil bearing capacity), the stresses in the pile (with respect to the pile structural resistance) and the deformations, for a given thermal loading.

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Thermo-Pile 1.02

Thermo-Pile 1.02 is available in two different editions:

  • Enterprise Edition: this edition allows the use of Thermo-Pile as expertise or design tool. Enterprise Edition gives right to the commercial use of the software for private or public institutions.
  • Academic Edition: this edition is for academic institutions for a non-commercial use or education purpose only. When used in published studies, Thermo-Pile should be referred to as the producer of the corresponding results.

Don’t hesitate to have a look at the Thermo-Pile brochure for further pieces of information.

Interested by the Thermo-Pile software? Please fill in the Request Form and send it back to us by email to [email protected]. An offer will be prepared in the shortest delays.

Download the Trial Version

The package contains Thermo-Pile Trial version, V.1.02, March 2011 plus the technical documentation and the user’s guide. Note: This trial version is intended to give an overview of the software and not intended to produce results for design purpose. Copyright © 2011 EPFL LMS, Version 1, March 2011.

 

♦ Thermopile Executive File (Example Input)

 

 

♦ Thermopile User’s Manual

♦ Thermopile Theory Reference

Entities currently employing Thermo-Pile

Universities

  • Kasetsart University, Bangkok
  • University of Waterloo, Canada
  • T.U. Civil Engineering of Bucharest
  • University of Illinois, USA
  • University of Cincinnati
  • VSB, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Clarkson University, USA
  • Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
  • Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, India
  • Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  • Department of Civil and Geotechnical Engineering, Montana Tech, USA
  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
  • University of Akron, USA
  • Louisiana Tech University, USA
  • State University of Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro, Brazil
  • Institute of Geotechnics and Hydrotechnology, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
  • Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
  • Laboratory of GeoMechanics, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
  • Geotechnical Laboratory, CEDEX, Spain
  • Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory, Yonsei Univeresity, Republic of Korea
  • Department of Civil Engineering, Clemson University, USA

Companies

  • TERRASOL, Tunisie
  • S.C. Expert Proiect S.R.L, Romania
  • De Cerenville Géotechnique, Switzerland
  • SAS Priser Forages Fondations de l’Ouest, France
  • ECOME Entreprendre s.a.r.l., France