| Modeling of soil elastic and permanent plastic volumetric strains (compaction) caused by loading from machinery vehicles using the modified Cam-clay soil constitutive model requires understanding the behaviors of compression and rebound parameters under unsaturated soil conditions. Oedometer tests were conducted on a sandy loam, a loam, and a clay loam soil, all tropical soils, at three initial soil moisture contents and five maximum stress levels (50, 100, 200, 300 and 400 kPa). The objectives were to investigate the effects of soil moisture content and maximum applied stress on the modified compression index (l*) and modified rebound index (k*) parameters of a modified Cam-clay soil model on the three soils and predict the compressibility indices using... |
