18.11.2012 Views

Cranfield University

Cranfield University

Cranfield University

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.

Soil Compaction Models<br />

ture content of approximately 9 % at which the experiments were conducted. The VCL for<br />

the sandy loam soil given by O’Sullivan et al. (1998) is also included for reference.<br />

Rel. Density<br />

3<br />

2,5<br />

2<br />

1,5<br />

1<br />

0,5<br />

0<br />

y = -0,2432Ln(x) + 2,6726<br />

R 2 =0,8698<br />

y =-0,123Ln(x) +2,4221<br />

R 2 =1<br />

10 100 1000<br />

Pressure (kPa)<br />

Figure 70: Virgin compression line for sandy loam soils ■ from O’Sullivan et al.<br />

(1998) and ♦ from the soil bin studies based on the average density increases<br />

from Ansorge and Godwin (2007a)<br />

The intercept and slope of the in-situ VCL were used in COMPSOIL. The prediction per-<br />

formed with these modified parameters is compared to the measured data in Figure 71 for<br />

six individual tyres and close general agreement was achieved. Soil displacement is suc-<br />

cessfully predicted using COMPSOIL and the parameters of the in-situ VCL obtained from<br />

the soil bin experiments with a heuristically chosen concentration factor of � =5 suits best.<br />

The effect of other � is evaluated in Appendix 11.1.2.2.<br />

Fitting linear regression functions through the top 500 mm of the measured and predicted<br />

data of Figure 71 estimating the average increase in soil density as described by Ansorge<br />

and Godwin (2007a) and plotting the measured against predicted average density increase<br />

results in close agreement as shown in Figure 72 to within +/- 2 % errors. The data is<br />

spread randomly around the line of slope 1 and does not exhibit a general offset confirming<br />

the choice of � = 5. Fitting a linear regression line shows a marginal overprediction of<br />

0.8% and the R 2 = 0.85 confirms the overall effectiveness of the technique.<br />

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

107

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!