
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Young, IM 
A1  - Crawford, JW 
T1  - The analysis of fracture profiles of soil using fractal geometry
JF  - Soil Research
JO  - Soil Res.
Y1  - 1992
VL  - 30
IS  - 3
SP  - 291
EP  - 295
KW  - Soil Fracture Profiles;Fractal Geometry;
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/SR9920291 
N2  - 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. 
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