Analysis of soil compaction under different wheel applications using a dynamical cone penetrometer

Abstract

Soil compaction is one of the major problems in modern agriculture. Thus, the workability of a soil reflects to its ability to accept the traffic of agricultural machinery and implements. Water content and compaction are factors that influence the rheological behavior of the soil. the representation of soil shows limitations regarding the behavior of the tire-soil interface and its resistance to deformation is both influenced by the different forms of loading application along a tire path on a soil particle. This paper presents a study of the impact of multiple wheel passage, the wheel velocity, and the weight applied to the wheel on the agricultural soil represented by the cone index. To do this, we were inspired to launch an investigation for soil compaction determination at three levels of wheel load, three levels of velocity and at tillage, first, second and third passages of wheel with three replications on clayey sandy mixed grain soil. The results of this study shows that the greatest soil compaction occurred at the highest wheel load (1000 N), the lowest speed (0.1 m/s) and the highest number of passes (third pass), this leads to minimize multiple passes and or follow the same path, also, keeping the load on the ground as low as possible (weight of the machines), and working at high speed in agricultural fields.