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Soil Compaction Models<br />

The approach satisfies the requirements in the introduction of the Chapter. COMPSOIL<br />

embedded in SOILFLEX using the in-situ VCL approach enables researchers, machine<br />

designers, manufacturers, farm advisers, and farmers to evaluate the impact of their ma-<br />

chinery on soil density at the respective design selection and use stages.<br />

In future work consideration should be given to the behavior of tyre contact patches at dif-<br />

ferent inflation pressures. When they deviate from the recommended inflation pressure<br />

either way, contact pressure predictions may be improved leading to a closer agreement of<br />

soil displacement prediction to measured data.<br />

The next section carries the in-situ VCL approach to tracks. Afterwards the whole in-situ<br />

VCL is repeated on a small scale plate sinkage experiment and finally compared to triaxi-<br />

ally derived VCLs.<br />

6.4 Compaction Prediction using in-situ VCL for Rubber Tracks<br />

Figure 84 shows the VCLs for only tyres, only tracks, and including both. The resulting R 2<br />

decreases from 0.87 to 0.63 if tracks are added to tyres. A VCL only including the tracks<br />

and the roller shows a greater R 2 of 0.82. The slope and intercept of the VCLs indicate that<br />

the tracks show a different soil compaction behavior compared to tyres. The contact pres-<br />

sure of tracks results in a smaller relative density than for the corresponding tyres.<br />

Rel. Density<br />

1,95<br />

y = -0,1876Ln(x) + 2,4409<br />

R 2 y = -0,5337Ln(x) + 3,6157<br />

R<br />

= 0,6321<br />

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

R<br />

= 0,8216<br />

2 1,9<br />

1,85<br />

= 0,8698<br />

1,8<br />

VCL from Tires<br />

1,75<br />

1,7<br />

VCL from Tracks<br />

1,65<br />

y = -0,1876Ln(x) + 2,4409<br />

1,6<br />

R<br />

1,55<br />

VCL from Tires and Tracks<br />

10 100<br />

2 y = -0,5337Ln(x) + 3,6157<br />

R<br />

= 0,6321<br />

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

R<br />

= 0,8216<br />

2 1,9<br />

1,85<br />

= 0,8698<br />

1,8<br />

VCL from Tires<br />

1,75<br />

1,7<br />

VCL from Tracks<br />

1,65<br />

1,6<br />

1,55<br />

VCL from Tires and Tracks<br />

10 100<br />

Mean Normal Pressure (kPa)<br />

Figure 84: VCL gained from contact pressure and density increase measured from soil<br />

displacement including tracks<br />

The slope for the VCL without the tracks is steeper compared to the one including both<br />

tyres and tracks characterising the relative density change less prone to changes in mean<br />

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

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