Developing law and morphological analysis of shrinkage cracks of clayey soil under different temperatures

Yantu Gongcheng Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Geotechnical Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 743-749

  Tang, Chao Sheng ^a   Shi, Bin ^a   Liu, Chun ^a   Wang, Bao Jun ^a   Gao, Wei ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aggregate size; Clay soil; Cracks; Fractal dimension; Image processing; Structure; Temperature

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; CRACKS; FRACTAL DIMENSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MORPHOLOGY; SOILS;

AGGREGATE SIZE; CLAY SOIL; CRACK AREA; CRACK PATTERN; CRACK SEGMENT; CRACKS LENGTH; CRACKS NETWORK; CRACKS STRUCTURE; GEOMETRIC CHARACTERISTIC; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; SHRINKAGE CRACKS; STRUCTURE PARAMETERS; SURFACE CRACKS;

CLAY;

EID: 34250335296     PISSN: 10004548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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