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Soil Compaction Models<br />

On medium soil conditions, the results could be replicated using the plate sinkage data<br />

gained from small scale contact patches in the triaxial test apparatus as described in 2.3.2.<br />

This shows that plate sinkage tests can be used for both the estimation of in-situ VCL pa-<br />

rameters and Bekker-parameters. A mathematical justification of this was given by Sime<br />

and Upadhyaya (2004) and is explained in Section 6.7.<br />

The advantage of the Bekker approach is, that its parameters can be measured much easier<br />

than critical state soil mechanics or VCL parameters, however, the technique still requires<br />

plate sinkage tests performed to gain the parameters. Therefore the assessment is not as<br />

straight forward as the one proposed in Section 6.3.1 with the in-situ VCL whereby the<br />

measurements can be taken from rut depths created by tyres.<br />

Figure 96 shows that the predicted rut depths from COMPSOIL are intermediate between<br />

the Bekker approach utilizing the contact width and the one using half the contact length.<br />

From this it can be concluded that overall COMPSOIL predicts rut depths closer to the<br />

measured data, particularly on the soft soil.<br />

6.8.2 Sinkage of Tracks<br />

The track sinkage equation of Bekker (1960) “Track” could possibly be utilized to explain<br />

the different behavior of different tracks. However, as it assumes n to be equal to 1 which<br />

is only the case on very soft soils the predicted sinkage in Table 27 needs to be considered<br />

with care. The elastic elongation of the track (Slag) is taken into account with the “Track”<br />

equation. Besides the “Track” Table 27 includes the predictions of track sinkage gained<br />

directly from the plate sinkage approach “Plate”. Additionally the Bernstein equation<br />

(Bernstein, 1913) is included:<br />

6*<br />

W<br />

z �<br />

5*<br />

r * b * k *<br />

D<br />

Eq. 7<br />

whereby r is the number of rollers in the track unit and D is equal to the diameter of the<br />

largest roller of the track unit.<br />

According to Table 27 the general plate sinkage equation would predict sinkages too small.<br />

With “Track” assuming a slag of 0.02 sinkage is estimated too high in a range of 2 – 9 mm<br />

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

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