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Soil Compaction Models<br />

6.6.1.3 Water and System Compressibility<br />

The previous relationships do not take the water compressibility and the elasticity of the<br />

triaxial system into account. Therefore the elastic response of the system including the wa-<br />

ter was evaluated by pressurizing the cell without a sample three times up to 350 kPa and<br />

relieving the pressure again to determine the effect on the apparent volume change which<br />

in turn would influence the relative density. Considering the compressibility of the system,<br />

which has been disregarded in the previous figures, shifts the VCL further away from the<br />

origin on the horizontal axis making the soil to appear stronger as shown in Figure 90.<br />

Rel. Density<br />

2<br />

1,9<br />

1,8<br />

1,7<br />

1,6<br />

1,5<br />

1,4<br />

1 10 100 1000<br />

Mean normal Pressure Pressure (kPa) (kPa)<br />

System Compressibility not accounted System Compressibility accounted for<br />

Figure 90: VCL with and without compensation for water compressibility<br />

Water compressibility was not taken into account in the previous discussion as it is identi-<br />

cal for all curves and would only shift them in total and not have an influence on their rela-<br />

tions amongst each other.<br />

6.6.2 Axial and Radial Pressure<br />

As there was poor agreement for the VCL from the soil bin gained by the tyre passes and<br />

the VCLs created with radial pressure in the triaxial test apparatus the idea arose to apply<br />

radial and axial pressure simultaneously replicating stress conditions during a tyre pass as<br />

implied by Eq. 6 in Section 6.3.2. Radial pressure was set to 25 kPa and axial load was<br />

applied replicating the instant loading time and magnitude of a tyre pass in the soil bin.<br />

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

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