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Comparison in Porous Structure and Water Eetention with the Different Porous Media by Fractal Fragmentation Model  

Oh, Dong-Shig (National Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology)
Kim, Lee-Yul (National Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology)
Jung, Yeong-Sang (Kangwon National University)
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Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer / v.40, no.3, 2007 , pp. 189-195 More about this Journal
Abstract
Using fractal dimensionality theory proposed by Riew and Sposito (1991), we attempted to analyze quantitatively the characteristics of porous distribution for built-in soils in the mini-lysimeter and artificial seed-bed media. The 2" stainless core soil samples were taken from lysimeter soils. Artificial seed-bed media were compacted in the acrylic core filled with raw materials consisted of cocopeat, zeolite and perlite. N (Constant number of partitioned group size smaller media volumes) and r (Self-similarity ratio) parameters consisting of fractal dimension D=log(N)/log(1/r) were obtained by Excel Programme using the Riew and Sposito's fractal model. The pore distribution of tested media was screened in pore size and its occurring frequency. The results reveal that the distribution range of pores is wider in the lysimeter soils than in the seed-bed media, while average size of pores in the media is smaller in lysimeter core soils than in seed-bed media.
Keywords
Sampled core media; Fractal dimensionality theory; Porous structure;
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