Nishiyama, Yuta; Nanjo, Kazuyoshi Z.; Yamasaki, Kazuhito - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 387 (2008) 25, pp. 6252-6262
We present the geometrical minimum units of fracture patterns in two-dimensional space. For this analysis, a new method is developed from the algebraic approach: the concept of lattice (a type of partially ordered set) is applied to the discrete Walsh functions that have been used to measure...