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The mechanical response of soils under non-isothermal conditions determines the behavior and performance of a large number of engineering applications with more or less notable consequences for the daily life of people. Over the past fifty years, a substantial amount of research has been devoted to investigate such a response for applications including shallow and deep geothermal systems, nuclear waste repositories, and underground thermal energy storage systems. Despite the previous investigations and the accumulated knowledge about this subject, various challenges currently remain to be addressed. Looking at such challenges, the aim of this paper is twofold: (i) to provide an introduction about unresolved challenges related to the thermo-mechanics of soils from a perspective that considers their solution as a means to establish engineered earth materials; and (ii) to expand the fundamental analysis of the previous challenges that aims at pushing the boundaries of the current knowledge on the thermo-mechanics of soils.
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