Table 7 Significant analysis of the influence of six factors on undrained cohesion and moisture content of the clay.

From: Experimental study on the effect of freeze–thaw cycles to the cohesion and moisture content of geogrid reinforced silty clay

Response variable

Source

Coefficient

\(P\) value

Significance

\(y_{{c_{U} }}\)

Model

 

0.002

**

\(x_{5}\)

0.615

0.000

**

\(x_{5}^{2}\)

0.022

0.000

**

\(y_{{c_{M} }}\)

Model

 

0.001

**

\(x_{1}\)

− 0.616

0.001

**

\(x_{3}\)

− 0.120

0.012

*

\(x_{4}\)

− 0.577

0.000

**

\(x_{6}\)

− 0.373

0.001

**

\(x_{1} x_{6}\)

0.017

0.002

**

\(y_{{c_{L} }}\)

Model

 

0.001

**

\(x_{1}\)

− 0.542

0.001

**

\(x_{3}\)

− 0.109

0.009

**

\(x_{4}\)

− 0.511

0.000

**

\(x_{5}\)

− 0.125

0.003

**

\(x_{6}\)

− 0.337

0.001

**

\(x_{1} x_{6}\)

0.016

0.001

**

\(y_{{\omega_{U} }}\)

Model

 

0.001

**

\(x_{3}\)

0.053

0.030

*

\(x_{4}\)

0.253

0.000

**

\(x_{6}\)

− 0.185

0.005

**

\(x_{6}^{2}\)

0.003

0.002

**

\(y_{{\omega_{M} }}\)

Model

 

0.000

**

\(x_{4}\)

0.500

0.000

**

\(x_{6}\)

− 0.128

0.050

*

\(x_{6}^{2}\)

0.002

0.031

*

\(y_{{\omega_{L} }}\)

Model

 

0.000

**

\(x_{4}\)

0.520

0.000

**

\(x_{6}^{2}\)

0.003

0.021

*

  1. where, “*” means generally significant difference at \(P\) < 0.05 level; “**” means extremely significant difference at \(P\) < 0.01 level; \(F\) values of the model for undrained cohesion \(y_{{c_{U} }}\), \(y_{{c_{M} }}\), \(y_{{c_{L} }}\) and moisture content \(y_{{\omega_{U} }}\), \(y_{{\omega_{M} }}\), \(y_{{\omega_{L} }}\) were 5.703, 5.910, 6.090, 6.299, 11.719 and 9.940, respectively.