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Table of Contents<br />

6.6.3 Implications of Triaxial VCLs on predicted Soil Displacement................. 129<br />

6.6.4 Discussion and Conclusions on triaxially gained VCLs............................. 131<br />

6.7 Theoretical Link between Plate Sinkage and Critical State Soil Mechanics<br />

Parameters from Literature ............................................................................................ 132<br />

6.8 Sinkage Prediction from Real and Small Scale Plate Sinkage Data ..................... 133<br />

6.8.1 Sinkage of Tyres according to Bekker........................................................ 133<br />

6.8.2 Sinkage of Tracks ....................................................................................... 135<br />

6.9 The Implication of Peak vs. Average Contact Pressure on in-situ VCL............... 136<br />

6.10 Conclusions on Prediction Chapter....................................................................... 137<br />

7 ANCILLARY EXPERIMENTS AND ANALYSES ................................................................... 139<br />

7.1 Investigation into Track Behavior causing Strong Surface Layer ........................ 139<br />

7.1.1 Theoretical explanation............................................................................... 139<br />

7.1.2 Longitudinal soil displacement................................................................... 142<br />

7.2 Influence of Lugs on Soil Displacement with Depth ............................................ 146<br />

7.3 Introduction of a new Variable - Load per Perimeter Length ............................... 150<br />

7.3.1 General Problems with Contact Pressure and First Considerations ........... 150<br />

7.3.2 Influence of Contact Shape in Small Scale Experiment ............................. 153<br />

7.3.3 Application of heuristic approach to soil bin data ...................................... 158<br />

7.3.4 Derivation of Load per perimeter length (LPPL) ....................................... 160<br />

7.3.4.1 Variation of plate sinkage with applied load/contact pressure ....... 162<br />

7.3.4.2 The influence of the LPPL for different contact sizes.................... 163<br />

7.3.4.3 Contact Area vs. Perimeter............................................................. 164<br />

7.3.4.4 Interaction of Contact Area and Perimeter ..................................... 164<br />

7.3.5 The Influence of Contact Time................................................................... 167<br />

7.3.6 Influence of LPPL on Predicted and Measured Increase in DBD .............. 168<br />

7.3.7 Discussion, Conclusions, and further recommendations from LPPL......... 169<br />

7.4 Influence of Pressure History on Sinkage ............................................................. 169<br />

7.5 Consideration of Vertical Soil Failure .................................................................. 170<br />

7.6 Conclusions on Ancillary Experiements............................................................... 174<br />

8 CONCLUSIONS................................................................................................................. 176<br />

9 FURTHER REQUIREMENTS AND PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS ............................................. 178<br />

10 BIBLIOGRAPHY....................................................................................................... 179<br />

11 APPENDIX............................................................................................................... 189<br />

List of Diagrams and Tables - Appendix....................................................................... 189<br />

Appendix 1 Further Details on Soil Compaction Models ...................................... 191<br />

11.1.1 Comparison of Soil Compaction Models ......................................... 191<br />

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

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