
%0 Journal Article
%A Young, IM 
%A Crawford, JW 
%T The analysis of fracture profiles of soil using fractal geometry
%J Soil Research
%D 1992/06/01
%V 30
%N 3
%P 291-295
%K Soil Fracture Profiles;Fractal Geometry;
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/SR9920291
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/SR9920291 
%X 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. 
