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A phenomenon causing instability of soil structure and associated hydraulic properties in recently tilled soils is aggregate fragmentation induced by wetting and drying cycles. We analyzed data from three experiments in Puerto Rico, the UK and China measuring fragmentation and resulting evolution of aggregate size distributions during successive wetting and drying cycles in heavy textured soils. Aggregate distributions were represented as the cumulative fraction F of aggregates passing through successively larger sieve sizes X. To a good approximation, all distributions exhibited similarity in that the aggregate diameter X(F) corresponding to F in a given test distribution was always a characteristic multiple α¯ of X(F) in a fixed reference distribution, where α¯ for a distribution was calculated as its mean weight aggregate diameter (MWD) divided by the MWD of the reference distribution. In most cases, α¯ for a given soil varied inversely with the square of the number of wetting and drying cycles. For different soils of similar initial aggregate sizes, α¯ for a given wet–dry cycle decreased with increasing activity coefficient, reflecting the enhancing effect of soil shrink–swell potential on fragmentation. Results highlight usefulness of the van Bavel mean weight diameter as a natural scaling parameter for characterizing aggregate distributions.
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