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Table 5 Maximum stress values corresponding to different rammers and soil-laying thicknesses (experiments)

From: Research on mechanical characteristics and energy dissipation of traditional ramming technology

Soil thickness

No. 1 rammer

(kPa)

No. 2 rammer

(kPa)

No. 3 rammer

(kPa)

No. 4 rammer

(kPa)

No. 5 rammer

(kPa)

20 cm

298

279.5

362

656.8

530

16 cm

383

357.2

520

434

727

12 cm

471

493.4

506.7

576.4

718

8 cm

1347

1251.8

1829.7

2753.8

1858.6