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Ancillary Experiments<br />

even when having a similar contact pressure. This supports the results from Lamande et al.<br />

(2006) based on the original theory from Söhne (1954) stating that the higher the load the<br />

more stress and consequently soil deformation is caused over the entire soil profile even if<br />

the contact pressure is the same.<br />

Soil Deformation (1/100 * % Increase in DBD)<br />

0,18 D<br />

C<br />

0,16<br />

0,14<br />

0,12<br />

0,10<br />

0,08<br />

0,06<br />

A<br />

B<br />

60 80 100 120 140 160 180<br />

Contact Pressure (kPa)<br />

High Axle Load<br />

Low Axle Load<br />

Figure 108: Soil deformation vs. contact pressure for tyre and track treatments<br />

However, the theory from Söhne does not provide an explanation for the large deviations<br />

within a group of axle loading. Going from point A in Figure 108 to point B contact pres-<br />

sure increases from 70 kPa to 80 kPa, respectively 14.2 %. The corresponding soil defor-<br />

mation increases from 0.124 to 0.134, 8 % respectively. When looking at point C and D,<br />

contact pressure increases from 112 kPa to 152 kPa, 35.7%. Taking the previous compari-<br />

son into account soil deformation should increase by approximately half, which is 15 - 20<br />

%. Interestingly soil deformation only increases by 2.3 % from 17.3 to 17.7 %.<br />

There is no obvious explanation for the deviation of soil deformation with an increased<br />

contact pressure. It might possibly be a diminishing rate of increase; however, considering<br />

the contact pressures of the low axle loads, no such diminishing rate is visible although<br />

reach into the same contact pressure range. To investigate the cause of the large scatter of<br />

data points, load was plotted against soil deformation. As can be seen from Figure 109 low<br />

axle loads can cause similar soil deformation as high axle loads. Per se there is no differ-<br />

ence in soil deformation at different axle loads.<br />

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

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