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Dan Sun1, Song-Nan Luo

  • 1Key Laboratory of Advanced Design and Simulation Techniques for Special Equipment, Ministry of Education, College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, China.

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