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A P S Selvadurai1, A Głowacki

  • 1Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics, McGill University, 817 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2K6. patrick.selvadurai@mcgill.ca

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