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Soil Compaction Models<br />

respect to critical state soil mechanics, whereby he states that the theory of critical state<br />

soil mechanics is valid for partially saturated soils, however, it should be kept simple as the<br />

total stress states have not been proven yet, but can well be used as a working hypothesis.<br />

The study by Adams and Wulfsohn (1998) showed that the critical state soil mechanics can<br />

explain agricultural soil behavior and that it is possible to identify critical state soil me-<br />

chanics parameters for unsaturated soils. The critical state concept is applicable to unsatu-<br />

rated soils both quantitatively and qualitatively except that the critical state parameters<br />

depend on the soil moisture content according to Hettiaratchi and O’Callaghan (1980),<br />

Hettiaratchi (1987), and Kirby (1989). Additionally they found that it is reasonable to use<br />

total stress and consequently ignore soil moisture tension. Following these authors it is<br />

possible to utilize the complex critical state soil mechanics framework to describe soil<br />

compaction.<br />

An example of an empirical soil compaction model is the one developed by Adam and<br />

Erbach (1995) who empirically measure soil compaction by determining the depth to<br />

which DBD changes less than 5%. They could fit one exponential equation to the data<br />

similar to Bekker (1960) as the depth of soil compaction was not significantly affected by<br />

the water content on the silty clay loam used for their investigation.<br />

Excellent reviews of soil compaction models were done by Seig (1985) and afterwards by<br />

Defossez and Richard (2002). Both summarized and grouped the different approaches to<br />

predict soil compaction at their times.<br />

6.1.2 Latest Soil Compaction Models<br />

Since the last reviews on soil compaction modeling by Seig (1985), Defossez and Richard<br />

(2002) and Ansorge (2005, a), Keller et al. (2007) have created a model called SOIL<br />

FLEX. It includes the soil displacement approaches of O’Sullivan et al. (1998), Bailey and<br />

Johnson (1989), and Gupta and Larsson (1982). In all the models used soil strength in-<br />

creases with strain, i.e. strain hardening applies. Gupta and Larson (1982) describe volume<br />

change with a relationship between bulk density and the logarithm of the major principal<br />

stress. Bailey and Johnson (1989) describe the natural volumetric strain in dependence of<br />

octahedral normal stress and octahedral shear stress. O’Sullivan et al. (1998)<br />

(COMPSOIL) use a critical state soil mechanics approach whereby the specific volume<br />

Ph.D. Thesis Dirk Ansorge (2007)<br />

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