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Soil Compaction Models<br />

The “in-situ VCL full pressure” gained by assuming contact pressure being equal to mean<br />

normal stress agrees well with a typical VCL from the triaxial tests whereby only confining<br />

pressure has been applied (“VCL Spherical Pressure”). However, this underestimates soil<br />

displacement by a factor of 2.<br />

If constant confining stress is applied and an axial load impact similar to that in the soil bin<br />

is applied, and if the height change is additionally to the cell volume change taken into<br />

account (“VCL A+R Height / Quick”) soil displacement is largely overestimated. With<br />

only cell volume change (“VCL A+R Quick”) the approach is closer to the prediction with<br />

the tyres, however, slightly underestimates the resulting sinkage.<br />

If the axial load is applied slowly by a constant strain rate and only cell volume change is<br />

taken into consideration (“VCL A+R Slow”) the correct shape is obtained and it underes-<br />

timates total displacement less than “VCL A+R Quick”. If in the slow case height change<br />

is taken into consideration, too, “VCL A+R Height / Slow” shows a closer agreement at<br />

the surface, but the entire shape of the curve changed making it less appropriate. Thus the<br />

VCL which shows the closest agreement to the in-situ VCL in the previous Section pro-<br />

vides the parameters for the closest prediction.<br />

Depth (mm)<br />

0<br />

100<br />

200<br />

300<br />

400<br />

500<br />

600<br />

700<br />

800<br />

Displacement (mm)<br />

0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400<br />

Measured 900/10.5/1.9 in-situ VCL in-situ VCL full Pressure<br />

VCL SphericalPressure VCL A+RHeight / Slow VCL A+RHeight / Quick<br />

VCL A+R Slow VCL A+RQuick<br />

Figure 93: Comparison of prediction of 900/10.5/1.9 tyre with different triaxially<br />

gained VCLs to describe<br />

The following Figure 94 compares in detail the average VCL gained from axial and radial<br />

loading but only considering cell volume change and the VCL gained from mere confining<br />

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

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