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Ancillary Experiments<br />

Sinkage (mm)<br />

30<br />

25<br />

20<br />

15<br />

10<br />

5<br />

y= 0,2014x- 6,285<br />

R 2 = 0,9653<br />

0<br />

50 70 90 110 130 150 170 190 210<br />

Contact Pressure (kPa)<br />

y= 15,664x- 6,285<br />

R 2 = 0,9653<br />

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

Sinkage (mm)<br />

35<br />

30<br />

25<br />

20<br />

15<br />

10<br />

5<br />

0<br />

163<br />

0 0,5 1 1,5 2 2,5 3<br />

LPPL(kN/m)<br />

Figure 125: Sinkage of plate against contact pressure (left hand side) and against LPPL<br />

(left hand side) for plate No 1<br />

7.3.4.2 The influence of the LPPL for different contact sizes<br />

When introducing the parameter LPPL and plotting soil density increase against LPPL for<br />

soil bin data as shown in Figure 124 there was a clear relationship and higher correlation<br />

than with contact pressure. With scaled contact patches the question was if a similar pat-<br />

tern could be found. As shown in Figure 126 (left) when plotting sinkage vs. pressure a<br />

linear relationship could fit the data reasonably well. When plotting sinkage against LPPL<br />

the noise increases which is opposite to the findings in the lab.<br />

Sinkage (mm)<br />

20<br />

18<br />

16<br />

14<br />

12<br />

10<br />

8<br />

6<br />

4<br />

2<br />

0<br />

40 50 60 70 80 90 100<br />

Pressure (kPa)<br />

Sinkage (mm)<br />

20<br />

18<br />

16<br />

14<br />

12<br />

10<br />

8<br />

6<br />

4<br />

2<br />

0<br />

0,4 0,6 0,8 1 1,2<br />

LPPL (kN/m)<br />

Figure 126: Sinkage vs. pressure (left) and vs. LPPL for different plate shapes replicat-<br />

ing tyre contact patches from this study and Ansorge (2005, a)

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