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Laboratory Studies Into Undercarriage Systems<br />

3.3.2.1 Penetrometer Resistance<br />

The penetrometer resistance for all track units and the control is shown in Figure 41. All<br />

units created pronounced peaks at the surface as previously found by Ansorge (2005, a)<br />

whereby the SPT unit exhibited the least decrease in penetrometer resistance with depth.<br />

Both, the Westtrack and Stocks unit were statistically significantly different from the SPT<br />

unit with p-values of 0.0136 and 0.0475, respectively. Other combinations were not sig-<br />

nificantly different.<br />

Depth (mm)<br />

0<br />

100<br />

200<br />

300<br />

400<br />

500<br />

600<br />

700<br />

800<br />

Penetration Resistance (MPa)<br />

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

Figure 41: Penetrometer resistance vs. depth for different track units<br />

3.3.2.2 Soil Displacement<br />

Control<br />

TerraTrac<br />

Stocks<br />

Westrack<br />

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

SPT<br />

LSD at 95% CI<br />

The soil displacement diagram for the different track units is shown in Figure 42. West-<br />

track and Stocks created the least soil displacement followed by the TerraTrac unit at 50<br />

bar belt pressure (the TerraTrac at normal belt pressure was excluded due to the reasons<br />

detailed in Section 3.3.1.2). SPT caused the most soil displacement. Statistically only the<br />

SPT unit was significantly different from all other units with a p-value ranging from<br />

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