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Ancillary Experiments<br />

gated. If it was possible to obtain vertical soil displacement data while implements were<br />

passing, probably more could be explained.<br />

Thus in a future study it is recommended to measure the pressure and actual displacement<br />

below a track simultaneously to trace vertical displacement at varying depths while a track<br />

passes. This would enable to investigate the effect of plate geometry in more detail as it<br />

was possible to replicate the true pressure distribution below the track, too.<br />

7.3.6 Influence of LPPL on Predicted and Measured Increase in DBD<br />

The influence of LPPL on measured soil displacement was intensively shown. The remain-<br />

ing question is to which extend this was taken into consideration with existing soil com-<br />

paction models. Therefore soil density increase predicted with COMPSOIL using the in-<br />

situ VCL developed in Section 6.3 was used to predict increase in DBD. The result was<br />

plotted against the corresponding LPPL in Figure 131. As it can be seen from the measured<br />

data on the left hand side compared to the predicted data on the right hand side, the overall<br />

tendency is very similar and both curves show similar curvature, too. The “outlier” in the<br />

measured term is obviously not represented in the predicted term. However, for the pre-<br />

dicted diagram there is a similar increase in density increase for the low axle load as it was<br />

measured. The high axle load flattens, too.<br />

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

0,18<br />

0,16<br />

0,14<br />

0,12<br />

0,10<br />

0,08<br />

0,06<br />

High Axle Load<br />

Low Axle Load<br />

1,0 1,2 1,4 1,6 1,8 2,0 2,2 2,4 2,6 2,8 3,0 3,2<br />

Load per PerimeterLength (t/m)<br />

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

Predicted rel. Increase Increase in DBD<br />

0,18<br />

0,16<br />

0,14<br />

0,12<br />

0,10<br />

0,08<br />

0,06<br />

High Axle Load<br />

Low Axle Load<br />

168<br />

1,0 1,2 1,4 1,6 1,8 2,0 2,2 2,4 2,6 2,8 3,0 3,2<br />

Load per PerimeterLength (t/m)<br />

Figure 131: Measured (left) vs. predicted (right) increase in DBD against LPPL

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