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Soil Compaction Models<br />

In a first step (Section 6.3.1) this “in-situ virgin compression line (in-situ VCL)” will be<br />

derived from theoretical considerations. Afterwards (Section 6.3.2) the in-situ VCL is cre-<br />

ated utilizing treatments from the soil bin. The in-situ VCL will be validated with inde-<br />

pendent soil bin laboratory data (Section 6.3.3) and the entire concept validated in field<br />

conditions (Section 6.3.4). In the subsequent section (Section 6.4) the in-situ approach will<br />

be applied to tracks. Then the in-situ VCL approach is repeated with small scale plate sink-<br />

age experiments (Section 6.5). After gaining the slope and intercept of the in-situ VCL,<br />

these parameters will be verified in a triaxial cell test apparatus (Section 6.6).<br />

6.3.1 Theoretical Considerations<br />

The Cam-Clay model COMPSOIL (O’Sullivan et al., 1998) provides an estimation of soil<br />

displacement for a sandy loam soil from tyre data and DBD whereby COMPSOIL calcu-<br />

lates VCL parameters depending on moisture content.<br />

An initial comparison of soil displacement measured by Ansorge (2005, a) for a sandy<br />

loam to the data predicted by COMPSOIL using the VCL parameters suggested by<br />

O’Sullivan et al. (1998) is given in Figure 69 originating from Ansorge (2005, a). This<br />

shows very large deviations for both uniform and stratified soils, which in turn suggests<br />

that either the soil specific parameters used to describe the sandy loam soil of the model<br />

are not adequate to describe the sandy loam soil used in the soil bin or there are substantial<br />

errors in the model. The latter is unlikely as O’Sullivan et al. (1998) demonstrated close<br />

agreement. Consequently the VCL parameters for the sandy loam of the Cotternham Series<br />

(which was used by Ansorge (2005, a) and this study) have to be different from the sandy<br />

loam soil described by O’Sullivan et al. (1998) and used by the original COMPSOIL<br />

model and hence need to be determined.<br />

A VCL is usually obtained from plotting the relative density (ratio of the maximum soil<br />

density (2.66 g/cm 3 ) to the resulting dry bulk density) against mean normal pressure meas-<br />

ured with triaxial cell tests. For the assessment of the in-situ VCL in the soil bin the rela-<br />

tive density is obtained by adding the average density increase measured by Ansorge<br />

(2005, a) and this study to the initial soil density. Mean normal pressure is obtained from<br />

the contact pressure following a transformation after O’Sullivan et al. (1998).<br />

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

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