Statistical artefacts in the determination of the fractal dimension by the slit island method

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 71, Issue 7-8, 2004, Pages 1081-1105

  Bigerelle, Maxence ^a   Iost, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LILLE 1   (France)

Author keywords

Artefact measurement; Fractal dimension; Monte Carlo simulation; Slit island method; Statistics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

GRAIN GEOMETRY; SLIT ISLAND METHODS;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

FRACTAL ANALYSIS; FRACTURE MECHANICS;

EID: 0347415865     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-7944(03)00136-X     Document Type: Article

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