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Volume 20Issue 4April 2020

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Received: Dec 9, 2018
Accepted: Jan 10, 2019
Published online: Jan 23, 2020
Published in print: Apr 1, 2020
Discussion open until: Jun 23, 2020

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David Oliveira, Ph.D. [email protected]
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Technical Director for Rock Engineering, Jacobs Engineering Group, Asia-Pacific and Middle East, Level 7, 177 Pacific Hwy., North Sydney, NSW 2060, Australia (corresponding author). Email: [email protected]
Andre Assis, Ph.D.
Professor, Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro, Faculdade de Tecnologia, Departamento de Engenharia Civil e Ambiental, Universidade de of Brasilia, Brasilia 70910-900, Brazil.
Ana Heitor, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer, Centre for Geomechanics and Railway Engineering, Univ. of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia.

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