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Ancillary Experiments<br />

Figure 107: Lug influence close to the centre of a rut on stratified soil conditions after<br />

the pass of a 900/10.5/1.9<br />

The conclusion can be drawn that soil displacement caused by lugs did not exceed the<br />

working depth of a weak uniform soil condition, i.e. it does not affect soil displacement<br />

significantly to a depth where it could not be alleviated with common tillage operations.<br />

Soil pressure measurements might indicate higher pressures due to the higher pressure<br />

caused by the lug on the soil (Gupta and Raper, 1994 and Way et al., 1993), but this pres-<br />

sure peak did not cause the soil to additionally deform to a critical depth. At the surface lug<br />

influence decreases when the distance to the centre of the rut decreases where the actual<br />

soil displacement is highest.<br />

7.3 Introduction of a new Variable - Load per Perimeter Length<br />

The following Section evolved empirically from a study relating soil density increase to<br />

contact pressure and aiming to account for the obvious variations as best as possible.<br />

7.3.1 General Problems with Contact Pressure and First Considerations<br />

When considering soil density increase depending on contact pressure some variation is<br />

obvious as visible in Figure 108 whereby plotting the average soil deformation caused by a<br />

single tyre or track treatment against its mathematical average contact pressure does not<br />

result in a smooth relationship. Taking the axle load into account shows that the higher<br />

axle load (quadrats) is always higher in soil deformation than the lower axle load (circles),<br />

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

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