Soil, Monte Carlo analysis

Copeland (USA) 1993 Assessment of exposures at a wood treatment site by comparing Monte Carlo analysis and EPA s Reasonable Maximum Exposed Individual (RMEI) approach Soil samples of PCDDs and PCDFs mg/kg/day... 

The more elaborate 1973 Z-9 characterization defined the three-dimensional distribution below the 9- X 18-m floor. Maximum plutonium concentration was 20 g/liter in a small, thin region, with 2 to 10 g/liter in large areas of soil down to a depth of 30 cm. The higher concentration regions were found to have water volume fractions up to 60 vol%. A detailed three-dimensional analysis was performed using the GEM4 and KENO Monte Carlo computer codes, with the koe of the trench calculated to be 0.5 (Sefs. 6 and 7). 

The first developments of the SEEM can be traced back at least to Cornell (1970), who studied soil settlement problems, and to Shinozuka (Astill et al. 1972), who combined FEM with Monte Carlo simulation for reliability analysis of stmctures with random excitation, random material properties, or random geometric properties. He introduced random fields and discretized them based on spectral representation theory... 

---