Applications:

Compacting soil can prevent water infiltration, which reduces fertilizer utilization rate by soil, affect plant growth rate, and even lead to crop yield reduction. Hence, testing soil compaction is important for guiding agricultural production, a good indicator for arable land, useful for soil property survey, soil permeability, aeration, domestic, industrial and civil construction, highways, railways, road, drainage, oil pipeline, water conservancy, dam construction, irrigation canal, reservoir construction, airport runway engineering, etc.

Measuring Principle:

This is a universal type penetrometer, which measures the penetration resistance of the soil to estimate compaction coefficient, which co-relates to the soil hardness parameter.