Sensitivity Study of the Computational Parameters for the Deformation of Homogeneous Earth Dams

Table 14

Sensitivity ranking of each parameter by different methods.

Method	Vertical displacement	Upstream horizontal displacement	Downstream horizontal displacement
Single-factor (parameter increase)	>>>>	>>>>	>>>>
	>>>	>>>	>>>
Single-factor (parameter reduction)	>>>>	>>>	>>>>
	>>>	>>>>	>>>
Orthogonal test (extreme difference analysis)	>>>>	>>>>	>>>>
	>>>	>>>	>>>
Orthogonal test (analysis of variance)	>>>>	>>>>	>>>>
	>>>	>>>	>>>