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Soil Compaction Models<br />

value. A further increase in preconsolidation stress did not produce a consecutive decrease<br />

in soil failure as expected. Full details can be found in Appendix 1/1.1.2.1.<br />

COMPSOIL<br />

The model SOILFLEX (Keller et al., 2006) provides the possibility to change critical soil<br />

mechanics parameters embedded in COMPSOIL directly while keeping both initial DBD<br />

and soil moisture content as given in the experiment. From theory an increasing magnitude<br />

of the slope of the virgin compression line means that increases in DBD result from<br />

smaller pressure changes. A decreased intercept means less pressure for the same DBD.<br />

With a reduction in the intercept soil compaction increased significantly. With a slope of<br />

~ 0.15 the results came into the range measured in the soil bin by Ansorge (2005, a). The<br />

recompression lines were not changed because their influence can be ignored for single<br />

passes. Changing VCL parameters it was possible to improve predictions significantly.<br />

6.2.3 Discussion and Conclusions on Comparison of Soil Compaction Models<br />

The comparison of measured and calculated pressure showed some deviation, yet the mag-<br />

nitude is too small to explain the differences in soil compaction seen especially with<br />

COMPSOIL. Changing critical state soil parameters to fit the data seems a promising way<br />

to adapt a soil mechanics models for a particular soil. Following the proposal for an in-situ<br />

access to VCL parameters in Section 6.1.5, this will be the aim of the following Section.<br />

6.3 Derivation of VCL Parameters from Soil Bin and Validation/Evaluation<br />

The compression behaviour of soil is shown in Figure 68 as a function of soil volume de-<br />

pending on the exerted pressure. The soil indicates a semi-logarithmic relationship of vol-<br />

ume with pressure. If the pressure is plotted on logarithmic scale and the volume is re-<br />

placed by the relative density of the soil, the virgin compression line (VCL) is derived. The<br />

VCL as defined by Schofield and Wroth (1968) is a unique function relating the relative<br />

density of a soil at a given moisture content to the natural logarithm of the spherical pres-<br />

sure it is subjected to. According to their definition spherical pressure is the arithmetical<br />

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

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