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Mahmoud Abo El-Wafa1,2, Kimio Fukuzawa3

  • 1Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering-Rabigh Branch, King, Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia.

Materials (Basel, Switzerland)
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Keywords:
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