MECHANISMS OF VISCOELASTIC SOIL
DEFORMATION UNDER CYLINDER ROLLING

D. I. Zolotarevskaya

UDC 539.379.24:631.431.73:001.573

The mechanisms of deformation by a circular rolling cylinder 
of a viscoelastic soil with depth-varying physical properties have 
been investigated. A method for calculating the indices characterizing 
the rheological properties, the stressed-strained state, and the density 
of the soil upon the first passage over the soil and upon many passages 
of a cylinder over one track is proposed. A quantitative assessment 
of the influence of the basic factors on the change in the rheological 
properties of the soil and their tending to elastic ones as a result 
of a number of cylinder passages over one track has been made.

K. A. Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, 49 Timiryazevskaya 
Str., Moscow, 127550, Rissia; email: zolot@gagarinclub.ru. Translated 
from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 78, No. 3, pp. 153-162, 
May-June, 2005. Original article submitted July 14, 2004.