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Appendix<br />

11.1.3.2 Stratified Soil Conditions<br />

After having shown the capability to predict soil compaction on different bearing capacities,<br />

the next step was to compare the performance of the in-situ model for different bearing<br />

capacities within one soil profile. Hence, the stratified soil conditions used by Ansorge (2005)<br />

were simulated with the in-situ model using densities of 1.45, 1.62, and 1.55 g/cc for the<br />

zones: above 200 mm, between 200-325 mm and 300-750 mm, respectively. As can be seen<br />

from<br />

Figure 13 the predicted and measured soil displacement agree well in shape indicating that the<br />

compaction behaviour of the soil is correctly predicted. However, a general over prediction is<br />

visible over the whole depth starting with 14 mm at the surface and decreasing to 2 mm at<br />

depth, overall typically 4 mm. This could be attributed to the tendency to overestimate soil<br />

displacement on dense soil, a tendency which was already marginally visible by the<br />

comparison of prediction to measurement on dense soil in the previous paragraph (3.1). The<br />

large difference at the surface can as well be attributed to the influence of lugs and a sampling<br />

error.<br />

Depth (mm)<br />

0,0<br />

100,0<br />

200,0<br />

300,0<br />

400,0<br />

500,0<br />

600,0<br />

700,0<br />

800,0<br />

Soil Displacement (mm)<br />

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45<br />

Figure 13: Predicted (♦) and measured (■) soil displacement on stratified soil<br />

conditions after the pass of a 900/10.5/1.9. The least significant difference<br />

(LSD) at 95 % is also shown<br />

11.1.3.3 Multi Pass Experiment<br />

Figure 14 shows the results of predicting soil displacement after 3 passes of 900/10.5/1.9 and<br />

900/5/0.5 tyres over a uniform weak soil with an initial DBD of 1.38 g/cm 3 . These were<br />

compared to the measured values from Ansorge (2005). This comparison aims particularly at<br />

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

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