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At present, qualitative and quantitative analyses of the soil microstructure are mainly made on the two-dimensional level. The present study makes possible the three-dimensional visualization of soil microstructure by transforming the scanning electron microscopy (SEM) photographs into the three-dimensional digital map (DEM) with such abundant information as their inherent particles and apertures; it also makes available 2.560 as the fractal dimension for the DEM image of the sample soil by conducting a quantitative analysis of its microstructure with the projective covering method, a surface fractal measurement method.
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Guo, Y., Wang, Z. (2014). A Study of the Three-Dimensional Visualization of Soil Microstructure Based on MATLAB. In: Jia, L., Liu, Z., Qin, Y., Zhao, M., Diao, L. (eds) Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Electrical and Information Technologies for Rail Transportation (EITRT2013)-Volume I. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 287. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-53778-3_24
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