The analysis of fracture profiles of soil using fractal geometry

I. M. Young; J. W. Crawford

doi:10.1071/SR9920291

The analysis of fracture profiles of soil using fractal geometry

I. M. Young, J. W. Crawford

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The fracture profiles of three soils (taken from Dexter and Horn 1988) are analysed according to their fractal dimensions, D. D, which is a measure of how the ‘apparent’ length of a fracture path increases with decreasing ruler size, is found to be a good quantifier of the tortuousity of fracture paths. The fractal analysis is compared with a more traditional statistical method of analysing fracture profiles. It is shown that the latter method, unlike fractal analysis, can omit a significant proportion of a tortuous fracture path and therefore leads to an underestimate of any roughness parameter. © 1992, CSIRO. All rights reserved.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	291-295
Number of pages	5
Journal	Australian Journal of Soil Research
Volume	30
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1071/SR9920291
State	Published - Jan 1 1992
Externally published	Yes

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