Investigating the Failure Mechanism of Jointed Rock Slopes Based on Discrete Element Method

Table 6

Results of range analysis.

Macroparameters	Range value and ranking	Microparameters
		Ec	krat	μ	σb	cb	Φb
σc	R	15.882	18.656	21.266	23.886	107.58	13.212
	Ranking			cb > σb > μ > krat > Ec > Φb
E	R	56.56	18.296	16.4	8.638	9.784	17.104
	Ranking			Ec > krat > Φb > μ > cb > σb
ν	R	0.1001	0.29348	0.10572	0.13274	0.14612	0.099
	Ranking			krat >σb > cb > μ > Ec > Φb
σt	R	0.742	1.3158	0.9906	5.598	0.8236	0.464
	Ranking			σb > krat > μ > cb > Ec > Φb
c	R	4.346	8.518	7.84	3.818	9.14	2.514
	Ranking			cb > krat > μ> Ec > σb > Φb
φ	R	2.572	4.53	8.71	3.17	5.66	10.124
	Ranking			Φb > μ > cb > krat > σb > Ec