Wheel–Ground Interaction Test for Sugarcane Cargo Transshipments

Sugarcane cultivation involves several operations with vehicle traffic. Tires for cargo vehicles are responsible for soil compaction, which is the main impact caused by machines in agriculture. Thus, the present research aimed to evaluate load wheelsets interaction on deformable and rigid running surfaces. We use three tire models used on transshipment vehicles to sugarcane crops, one road and two agricultures, described as p1, double road radial wheelset; p2, agricultural radial tire; and p3, bias ply tire. We adopted a completely randomized design with three replications, for the total contact area and punctual area claws. In the deformable surface, the resistance to soil penetration was verified. Road tires had the largest punctual contact area to the total area, the total area/punctual area ratio was 66.9