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Ancillary Experiments<br />

The combination of the square plate being too high and too small resulted in the idea to<br />

plot the product of d and<br />

U<br />

which resulted in the closest agreement to a straight line as<br />

U Circle<br />

displayed in Figure 119. Hence, χ can be described as:<br />

� �<br />

U<br />

* � c<br />

i<br />

c2 * lDia<br />

U Circle<br />

1<br />

Eq. 2<br />

whereby c1 and c2 are soil specific constants empirically determined. In the following Sec-<br />

tion this approach is transferred onto the experimental soil bin data from tyre and track<br />

passes.<br />

Figure 119: Sinkage/ contact pressure χ vs. form factor * diagonal<br />

7.3.3 Application of heuristic approach to soil bin data<br />

Figure 120 shows that if normalized sinkage is plotted against form factor for tyre/track<br />

data, the data shows a lot of variation and a linear regression line is not significant with an<br />

R 2 of 0.445 and a p-value of 0.17.<br />

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

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