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Soil Compaction Models<br />

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Soil Bin VCL<br />

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

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Figure 83: Measured (points) and predicted (lines) soil displacement for the normal<br />

(2.5 bar) (left hand side) and high inflation pressure (3.5 bar) (right hand<br />

side) treatment on subsoiled sandy loam<br />

Overall it seems as if a � of 5 is appropriate to describe the pressure propagation for a<br />

sandy loam soil and a � of 4 to describe a clay soil. This can be explained by their differ-<br />

ent particle size distribution which overall gives the sandy loam a coarser network com-<br />

pared to the clay.<br />

6.3.5 Discussion and Conclusions on in-situ VCL<br />

The approach from Etienne and Steinemann (2002) utilizing a screw driver test to describe<br />

soil strength at the surface triggered the idea of developing an easy accessible way to<br />

measure soil specific parameters. With the in-situ VCL approach presented here, such a<br />

possibility has been found. A new approach to gain the slope and intercept of a soil and<br />

water content specific in-situ VCL was derived from easily accessible tyre and soil data.<br />

The approach was successfully validated both in the soil bin laboratory and in the field.<br />

Necessary parameters are tyre load, inflation pressure, tyre width and diameter, rut depth,<br />

uniform soil density depth or working depth, and density of this soil.<br />

From this, it was possible to provide a relatively simple critical state soil mechanics soil<br />

compaction prediction model (COMPSOIL; O’Sullivan et al., 1998) with soil specific

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