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Appendix<br />
comparison at the deepest reading. The second difficulty with the O’Sullivan model was that<br />
it could not account for tracks. Tracks were mimicked for this investigation with a conceptual<br />
load limitation to 10 t given by the spreadsheet. To get an average pressure the measured data<br />
was averaged over the time period it took to pass over the pressure transducer. Table 1 shows<br />
the measured and predicted vertical soil stress values for different implements and soil<br />
compaction models.<br />
Table 1: Measured and predicted vertical soil stress values for different implements<br />
Treatment and<br />
load<br />
and models<br />
Depth<br />
(mm)<br />
Measured<br />
vertical stress<br />
(bar)<br />
Predicted<br />
TASC<br />
soft/half<br />
firm(bar)<br />
Predicted<br />
O’Sullivan<br />
Ph.D. Thesis Dirk Ansorge (2007)<br />
(bar)<br />
Predicted<br />
SOCOMO<br />
(bar)<br />
Closest Model /<br />
Deviation pos/neg<br />
(not considering half<br />
firm of TASC)<br />
Track 12 t 250 0.80 1.10/0.97 0.95 0.85 SOCOMO (+6 %)<br />
Track 12 t 400 0.49 0.80/0.67 0.94 0.79 SOCOMO (+92 %)<br />
Track 12 t 650 0.38 0.49/0.43 - - - - - - 0.67 TASC (+26 %)<br />
Track 5 t 250 0.26 0.46/0.40 0.66 0.37 SOCOMO (+42 %)<br />
Track 5 t 400 0.10 0.33/0.28 0.58 0.36 TASC (+330 %)<br />
800/10/2 250 1.18 1.86/1.73 1.70 1.34 SOCOMO (+14 %)<br />
800/10/2 400 0.88 1.23/1.11 1.47 1.24 SOCOMO (+41 %) /<br />
TASC (+40 %)<br />
800/10/2 650 0.50 0.64/0.62 - - - - - - 1.02 TASC (+28 %)<br />
800/10/1 250 0.96 1.77/1.49 1.54 0.922 SOCOMO (-4 %)<br />
800/10/1 400 0.53 1.20/1.07 1.35 0.90 SOCOMO (+70 %)<br />
800/10/1 650 0.32 0.63/0.62 - - - - - - 0.81 TASC (+97 %)<br />
800/10.5/2.5 250 1.6 1.98/1.77 1.85 1.42 O’Sullivan (- 11%)<br />
The resulting pattern of proximity between measured and calculated values is very interesting.<br />
The model COMPSOIL overpredicted the stresses compared to the measured stresses and it<br />
never showed the closest agreement between measured and predicted values. For the surface<br />
it seems as if SOCOMO shows the closest connection to the measured parameters. Apart from<br />
one case the predicted soil stresses were always too high. At depth the TASC model gave<br />
good estimations and predicted soil pressures closer to the measured ones than SOCOMO. It<br />
is not clear why or how, yet interestingly stress decrease with depth seems too small for<br />
SOCOMO compared to reality. For the pressure prediction in Table 1 a soft surface was<br />
assumed for the TASC model. The author had checked the appropriateness of this with a<br />
screw driver test (developed in that model to measure surface soil strength similar to a<br />
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