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The Soil Particles Distributions and Fractal Dimension  

Yu, Chan (Dept. of Agricultural Engrg., Gyeongsang Nat'l Univ.)
Ahn, Sung-Yul (Dept. of Agricultural Engrg., Chonbuk Nat'l Univ.)
Lee, Chang-No (Dept. of Civil Engrg., Univ. of Seoul)
Baveye, Philippe C. (Dept. of Crop & Soil Science, Cornell Univ)
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Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society / v.18, no.6, 2002 , pp. 25-32 More about this Journal
Abstract
The fractal dimension that was evaluated with soil components from the traditional particle-size distribution(PSD) curve was analyzed using the results of Wu et al.(1993) and Bittelli et al.(1999). In order to find the change of the variation of fractal dimension with the upper and lower limit, three limit values(200$\mu{m}$, 63$\mu{m}$, and 125$\mu{m}$) were chosen, and these results of fractal dimension analysis were compared to the result that was evaluated in the whole range of the soils. The results showed that it is possible to evaluate fractal dimension from the traditional PSD curve with the soil contents, and it showed that Bittelli et at.(1999)'s upper and lower limit value was more reasonable than Wu et al.(1993). Equations that were presented by Bittelli et at.(1999) also showed a good agreement with the analytical results in the silt domain.
Keywords
Fractal dimension; Upper and lower cut-off value; Particle-size distribution; Soil contents; Self-similarity;
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