Table 5. Spearman’s rank correlation of particle size and Adhesive Fracture Energy for Phase 2 results§.
Particle Size Class | Spearman ρ for Correlation of %Particle Size Class with AdhesiveFracture Energy for SmoothOverlap Joints | Probability >|ρ|for SmoothOverlap Joints(n = 119) | Spearman ρ for Correlation of %Particle Size Class with AdhesiveFracture Energy for RoughenedOverlap Joints | Probability >|ρ|for RoughOverlap Joints(n = 79) |
% CoarseSand | −0.1847 | 0.0443 | −0.4583 | <.0001 |
% MediumSand | −0.1705 | 0.0637 | −0.3924 | 0.0003 |
% FineSand | −0.1033 | 0.2634 | 0.0191 | 0.8675 |
% VeryFine Sand | −0.0390 | 0.6738 | 0.3548 | 0.0013 |
% Silt andClay | 0.1067 | 0.2480 | 0.6658 | <.0001 |
Correlations calculated separately for roughened and smooth joints. Gum arabic only control joints (n = 10) were excluded from the calculations.