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Soil Compaction Models<br />

According to Eq. 6 the resulting � 1 should be approximately 130 kPa because of the rela-<br />

tion of � 1 to the sum of � 2 and� 3 being 0.38 as shown in Appendix 11.1.2.2.<br />

These experiments resulted in a VCL less strong (details given in Appendix11.1.5.2) com-<br />

pared to soil bin VCL. Therefore the idea followed to apply axial load by moving the pis-<br />

ton a known distance in a given amount of time while recording the resulting axial force.<br />

As now the axial load is applied slowly, radial pressure can be well maintained and the cell<br />

volume change is equal to the compacted soil volume.<br />

Using the parameters of the VCL created only from cell volume change resulted in a closer<br />

agreement between the predicted and measured soil displacement using COMPSOIL.<br />

However, as shown with the loading cycle in Figure 91 the relation of � 1 to � 2 and� 3 was<br />

never larger than three which means that the stress state expected from Eq. 6 in the soil<br />

bin was not reached in the triaxial cell. At first a confining pressure of 25 kPa was applied<br />

to the sample. When axial load was applied the cell pressure dropped due to the contracting<br />

sample and became stable at about 19 kPa when the compaction of the sample was in equi-<br />

librium with the rate of water being pumped into the cell. Axial load increased up to a<br />

threshold value of 68 kPa and then slowly decreased whereby the stress difference between<br />

major and minor principal stress cannot become larger because the sample started to fail in<br />

shear.<br />

The influence of differences in � 1 to � 2 and � 3 can be seen in Figure 92 where the VCLs<br />

differ significantly if � 1 is bigger than � 2 and � 3 . The VCLs with different confining<br />

pressure than axial load are much closer to the in-situ VCL than if only radial pressure is<br />

taken into account. The axial-radial loaded VCL was repeated five times and corrected vor<br />

water compressibility and is shown in Figure 92. The standard deviation was 6kPa for the<br />

pressure and 0.03 for the rel. density.<br />

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

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