Abstract
The authors intend to show in this study, through the use of surface crack view, how a fractal approach might usefully model certain cracks in the surface. The use of a fractal model is an oversimplification. Nevertheless, the authors claim that we can not begin to solve more complex problems such as determining water movements in soil (or liner) before we first gain a deeper understanding of a simpler model of the sort described in this paper. As a result, fractal dimensions of four simulated cracks in the compacted clay liner by freezing/thawing effects were computed. The first two cracks analyzed appeared after the first freeze/thaw cycle while cracks #3 and #4 appeared after the second freeze/thaw cycle. Fractal dimensions between 1.12 and 1.23 have been measured for the four cracks.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 89-93 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Geosciences Journal |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2000 |
Keywords
- Crack
- Fractal
- Fractal dimensions
- Freeze/thaw