Date of download: 10/26/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Evaluation of Thermo-Active Foundations for Heating and Cooling Residential Buildings J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2016;138(6):061010-061010-10. doi:10.1115/1.4034806 Figure Legend: Three-dimensional model for the building slab-on-grade foundation with thermal piles

Date of download: 10/26/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Evaluation of Thermo-Active Foundations for Heating and Cooling Residential Buildings J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2016;138(6):061010-061010-10. doi:10.1115/1.4034806 Figure Legend: The boundary conditions for the TAF numerical model

Date of download: 10/26/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Evaluation of Thermo-Active Foundations for Heating and Cooling Residential Buildings J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2016;138(6):061010-061010-10. doi:10.1115/1.4034806 Figure Legend: (a) Nonuniform grid of the thermo-active foundation medium and (b) control volume of one interior node

Date of download: 10/26/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Evaluation of Thermo-Active Foundations for Heating and Cooling Residential Buildings J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2016;138(6):061010-061010-10. doi:10.1115/1.4034806 Figure Legend: Variation of computing time and RMSE value for the numerical solution as a function of the grid size

Date of download: 10/26/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Evaluation of Thermo-Active Foundations for Heating and Cooling Residential Buildings J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2016;138(6):061010-061010-10. doi:10.1115/1.4034806 Figure Legend: Testing setup using (a) centrifuge and (b) insulated soil container to house the TAF pile

Date of download: 10/26/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Evaluation of Thermo-Active Foundations for Heating and Cooling Residential Buildings J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2016;138(6):061010-061010-10. doi:10.1115/1.4034806 Figure Legend: (a) A test setup for a scale-model TAF system and (b) locations of strain and temperature probes [13]

Date of download: 10/26/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Evaluation of Thermo-Active Foundations for Heating and Cooling Residential Buildings J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2016;138(6):061010-061010-10. doi:10.1115/1.4034806 Figure Legend: The variations of the fluid inlet and outlet temperatures, and the ambient temperature of the experimental data [13]

Date of download: 10/26/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Evaluation of Thermo-Active Foundations for Heating and Cooling Residential Buildings J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2016;138(6):061010-061010-10. doi:10.1115/1.4034806 Figure Legend: Comparative analysis of the experimental data and the model predictions: (a) foundation temperature and (b) outlet fluid temperature

Date of download: 10/26/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Evaluation of Thermo-Active Foundations for Heating and Cooling Residential Buildings J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2016;138(6):061010-061010-10. doi:10.1115/1.4034806 Figure Legend: Example building modeled in energyplus

Date of download: 10/26/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Evaluation of Thermo-Active Foundations for Heating and Cooling Residential Buildings J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2016;138(6):061010-061010-10. doi:10.1115/1.4034806 Figure Legend: Monthly average outdoor air dry-bulb temperature of Boulder, CO; Chicago, IL; and New York, NY

Date of download: 10/26/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Evaluation of Thermo-Active Foundations for Heating and Cooling Residential Buildings J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2016;138(6):061010-061010-10. doi:10.1115/1.4034806 Figure Legend: Schematic drawings for (a) cooling system loop and (b) heating system loop coupled with water-to-water heat pump and ground coupled heat exchangers modeled in energyplus

Date of download: 10/26/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Evaluation of Thermo-Active Foundations for Heating and Cooling Residential Buildings J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2016;138(6):061010-061010-10. doi:10.1115/1.4034806 Figure Legend: Foundation locations of the prototypical multifamily residential building