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Soil Compaction Models<br />

entire depth was assumed as no sideways movement of the soil could be detected. The re-<br />

sulting in-situ VCLs are shown in Figure 87.<br />

Relative Density<br />

2,5<br />

2<br />

1,5<br />

1<br />

0,5<br />

0<br />

y = -0,2455Ln(x) + 2,6383<br />

R 2 R = 0,8323<br />

2 = 0,8323<br />

10 Mean Normal Pressure (kPa) 100<br />

Rel. Density<br />

y = -0,3144Ln(x) + 2,9358<br />

R 2 R = 0,9798<br />

2 = 0,9798<br />

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

2,5<br />

2<br />

1,5<br />

1<br />

0,5<br />

0<br />

124<br />

10 100<br />

Mean Normal Pressure (kPa)<br />

Figure 87: Virgin compression line for plate sinkage tests with different plate sizes<br />

(left) and different pressures on same plate (right)<br />

The function for the different plates (left hand side of Figure 87) indicates a slightly<br />

weaker soil as the one for the same plate with different loads on the right hand side. Feed-<br />

ing the slope and the intercept of these VCLs into COMPSOIL gave a close agreement to<br />

the measured data as shown in Figure 88.<br />

Depth (mm)<br />

0,0<br />

100,0<br />

200,0<br />

300,0<br />

400,0<br />

500,0<br />

600,0<br />

700,0<br />

800,0<br />

Displacement (mm)<br />

0 20 40 60 80 100 120<br />

Plate Sinkage Diff.<br />

Plates<br />

Real Data<br />

In-Situ VCL<br />

Plate Sinkage Same<br />

Plate<br />

Triaxial VCL<br />

Figure 88: Measured and differently predicted soil displacement for the 900/10.5/1.9<br />

on uniform soil conditions<br />

The VCL parameters created with the plate sinkage tests predict the 900/10.5/1.9 tyre<br />

closer to its real data than the appropriate parameters from triaxial cell test data; whereby<br />

axial and radial load is applied at the same time as described later in Section 6.6.2. Still,<br />

the best estimation is gained with the in-situ method using tyres.

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