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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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