Discussion of “Unified Effective Stress Equation for Soil” by Chao Zhang and Ning Lu
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Received: May 13, 2020
Accepted: Jul 31, 2020
Published online: Nov 28, 2020
Published in print: Feb 1, 2021
Discussion open until: Apr 28, 2021
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