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Jeffrey P Mitchell1, Bum-Yean Cho2, Yoo-Jae Kim3

  • 1Department of Civil Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, 1 Brookings Drive, Saint Louis, MO 63130, USA.

Materials (Basel, Switzerland)
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