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Soil Compaction Models<br />

This result justifies the approach taken with the estimation of the VCL parameters only<br />

from contact pressure and rut depth when knowing the DBD profile with depth of the soil.<br />

It furthermore describes an alternative approach on a smaller scale to derive VCL parame-<br />

ters with the same procedure in-situ. This may have the advantage that field conditions can<br />

be assessed empirically before machines are used. However, for most farmers it is easier to<br />

take machines into the field and measure the rut depths than to conduct these sinkage tests.<br />

If in future work it was possible to link these small scale plate sinkage experiments to drop<br />

cone results (Godwin et al., 1991) a neat approach for a farmer friendly method not using<br />

whole machines might be created.<br />

6.6 Triaxial Cell Test Apparatus VCL Compared to in-situ VCL<br />

In this section the in-situ VCL will be compared to a VCL gained with triaxial test equip-<br />

ment. The entire methodology for the triaxial cell test apparatus can be found in Section<br />

2.3.1. Initially confining pressure will be applied followed by an investigation of the sys-<br />

tem and water compressibility. Subsequently axial and radial pressure will be applied try-<br />

ing to mimic real soil loading conditions occurring during the passage of a wheel. At the<br />

end all the different prediction results of the varying VCLs will be compared. The full de-<br />

tails of the entire section are given in Appendix 11.1.5.<br />

6.6.1 Confining Pressure Applied<br />

In the first sequence only confining pressure was applied as this is the commonly referred<br />

way in literature to obtain a VCL according to Leeson and Campbell (1983). In the second<br />

sequence an axial stress higher than confining pressure was applied.<br />

6.6.1.1 Influence of Time of Loading<br />

Samples at one density and one moisture content (10%) were loaded to 100 kPa, unloaded<br />

and then reloaded up to 250 kPa. Loading times ranged from 30 – 360 min because the<br />

short loading time from the soil bin experiment could not be repeated due to the impossi-<br />

bility to change cell pressure instantaneously. The different loading times did not influence<br />

the VCLs significantly and agreed well with a VCL gained from the tyre passes in the soil<br />

bin if the mean normal pressure was set equal to � 1;<br />

(“Full Pressure” in Figure 89). This<br />

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

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