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The major findings obtained from the experimental and numerical studies are as follows: First, the thermophysical ground properties gradually produce an influence on the long-term temperature variation. For the soil layers with relatively higher thermal conductivity, the ground temperature near to the energy pile presents a slowly increasing trend, and the ground temperature response at a longer distance from the center of the PHC pile appears to be delayed. Second, the short- and long-term thermal performance of the PHC energy pile can be enhanced by increasing the thermal conductivity of backfill soil. When the thermal conductivities of backfill soil in the PHC pile increase from 1 to 4 W\/(m K), the heat exchange amounts of energy pile can be enhanced by approximately 30%, 79%, 105%, and 122% at 1 day and 20%, 47%, 59%, and 66% at 90 days compared with the backfill water used in the site. However, the influence of specific heat capacity of the backfill soil in the PHC pile on the short-term or long-term thermal response can be ignored. Furthermore, the variation of the initial ground temperature is also an important factor to affect the short-and-long-term heat transfer capacity and ground temperature variation. Finally, the thermal conductivity of the ground has a significant effect on the long-term thermal response compared with the short-term condition, and the heat exchange rates rise by about 5% and 9% at 1 day and 21% and 37% at 90 days as the thermal conductivities of the ground increase by 0.5 and 1 W\/(m K), respectively.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21113873","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,7]],"date-time":"2021-06-07T01:56:40Z","timestamp":1623031000000},"page":"3873","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":39,"title":["Field Test and Numerical Simulation on the Long-Term Thermal Response of PHC Energy Pile in Layered Foundation"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Guozhu","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Geotechnical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China"},{"name":"Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Urban Underground Engineering & Environmental Safety, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ziming","family":"Cao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Geotechnical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China"},{"name":"Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Urban Underground Engineering & Environmental Safety, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yiping","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Jiangsu Power Design Institute Co., Ltd. of China Energy Engineering Group, Nanjing 211102, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jiawei","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Geotechnical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China"},{"name":"Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Urban Underground Engineering & Environmental Safety, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"81","DOI":"10.1680\/geot.2006.56.2.81","article-title":"Energy foundations and other thermo-active ground structures","volume":"56","author":"Brandl","year":"2006","journal-title":"G\u00e9otechnique"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"229","DOI":"10.1680\/geot.2009.59.3.229","article-title":"Energy from earth-coupled structures, foundations, tunnels and sewers","volume":"59","author":"Adam","year":"2009","journal-title":"G\u00e9otechnique"},{"key":"ref_3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"50","DOI":"10.1016\/j.enbuild.2012.03.054","article-title":"Experimental study of geothermal heat exchangers buried in diaphragm walls","volume":"52","author":"Xia","year":"2012","journal-title":"Energy Build."},{"key":"ref_4","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"720","DOI":"10.1139\/cgj-2017-0158","article-title":"Thermo-hydro-mechanical coupling analysis of a thermo-active diaphragm wall","volume":"55","author":"Rui","year":"2018","journal-title":"Can. 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