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2005
Volume 8
Issue 4/volume8
Topic:
Forestry
ELECTRONIC
JOURNAL OF
POLISH
AGRICULTURAL
UNIVERSITIES
Kormanek M. , Walczykova M. 2005. CHARACTERISTICS OF HORIZONTAL DEFORMATION OF SOME FOREST SOILS, EJPAU 8(4/volume8), #39.
Available Online: http://www.ejpau.media.pl/volume8/issue4/volume8/abs-39.html

CHARACTERISTICS OF HORIZONTAL DEFORMATION OF SOME FOREST SOILS

Mariusz Kormanek1, Maria Walczykova2
1 Department of Forest Work Mechanization, Faculty of Forestry, University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland
2 Department of Machinery Management, Ergonomics and Production Processes, Faculty of Production and Power Engineering, University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland

 

ABSTRACT



The paper presents results of measurements of horizontal shearing of soil, made by the help of wheel bevameter on four types of forest sites, i.e. fresh mixed coniferous forest (fMCF), boggy mixed pine forest (bMPF), moist mixed broadleaved forest (mMBF) and moist broadleaved forest (mBF), with consideration of different moisture variants. On the basis of obtained data two relationships were determined: between soil horizontal deformation and the circumferential (driving) force as well as between slip and the coefficient of adhesion. Grouping of the investigated soil according to their shearing stresses was made by Ward’s method of agglomerative cluster analysis. For each of the obtained agglomeration new data of slip vs. coefficient of adhesion were calculated.

Key words: forest soils, coefficient of adhesion, slip, shearing stresses, cluster analysis.

Mariusz Kormanek
Department of Forest Work Mechanization, Faculty of Forestry, University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland
al. 29 Listopada 46
31-423 Kraków
Poland
Phone: +48 12 662 5024
email: rlkorma@cyf-kr.edu.pl

Maria Walczykova
Department of Machinery Management, Ergonomics and Production Processes, Faculty of Production and Power Engineering, University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland
Balicka 104, 30-149 Cracow, Poland
Phone: (012) 662 4634
email: rtwalczy@cyf-kr.edu.pl

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