Abstract Summary
Geothermal piles, also known as energy piles, use low grade heat energy from the shallow earth surface to heat and cool buildings. Reliability analysis of geotechnical structures has become increasingly important due to uncertainties in the geotechnical engineering field. In this study, ultimate group capacity and reliability analysis of energy pile was determined. The reliability index was calculated using the first order reliability method and two soft computing models, Random Forest and Extreme Gradient Boosting were developed to predict the ultimate group capacity . The XGBM model was best for designing and and reliability analysis of energy pile the energy.
