“…Several investigations have studied the influence of the input variability, such as the Young modulus and the permeability on the actual displacements, the degree of consolidation and the stress distribution in the soil domain. Kim et al [29], Huang et al [22], Bong and Stuedlein [9], Ronold [46] and Houmadi et al [21]. In the stochastic finite element method there are two ways of describing the spatial distribution of the input stochastic variables [5, 8, 12, 20, 24, 35, 37-39, 42, 49].…”