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Advanced Experimental Technology, Theory and Numerical Methods in Geomaterials and Concrete Materials
Wenhui Sun1, Yifei Li2, Runyu Liu2
1School of Transportation and Civil Engineering, Nantong University, Nantong 226019, China.
Materials (Basel, Switzerland)
|April 14, 2026
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Geotechnical and concrete materials are used as core carriers for infrastructure construction [...].
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