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Luca Righetti1, Vikki Edmondson2, Marco Corradi3,4

  • 1Department of Mechanical and Construction Engineering, Northumbria University, 209 Wynne-Jones Building, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UK. luca.righetti@northumbria.ac.uk.

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