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A Stress–Dependent Approach for Estimation of Drum–Soil Contact Area

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The conventional method of estimating the contact area of compaction rollers is based on simplifying assumptions such as the homogeneous and linear elastic behavior of the underlying compacted geomaterials. This study evaluates a stress-dependent approach for estimating the contact area of roller compaction considering the nonlinear behavior of compacted geomaterials. For this purpose, a finite element model was developed to simulate the roller compaction of unbound materials considering both the nonlinear behavior of geomaterials and the soil–drum interaction by means of using advanced contact algorithms. The contact area of the drum was estimated based on the stress distribution at the soil–drum interface for more representative pavement responses than those obtained from Hertzian models. The contact areas from this approach showed good agreement with those measured in the field.

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The authors would like to thank the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) for funding this study. The contents of this paper reflect the authors’ opinions, not necessarily the policies and findings of NCHRP.

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  1. GeoDesign Engineering Services, Terracon Consultants Inc., Phoenix, AZ, 85282, USA

    Aria Fathi

  2. The University of Texas At El Paso, El Paso, TX, 79968, USA

    Cesar Tirado, Sergio Rocha & Soheil Nazarian

  3. California State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA

    Mehran Mazari

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  1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

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  2. Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, USA

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  3. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

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Fathi, A., Tirado, C., Rocha, S., Mazari, M., Nazarian, S. (2022). A Stress–Dependent Approach for Estimation of Drum–Soil Contact Area. In: Tutumluer, E., Nazarian, S., Al-Qadi, I., Qamhia, I.I. (eds) Advances in Transportation Geotechnics IV. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 166. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77238-3_13

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