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Closure to “Novel Approach to Determine Soil–Water Retention Surface” by Mateus Bezerra Alves da Costa and André Luís Brasil Cavalcante

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Acknowledgments

This study was financed in part by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel—Brasil (CAPES)—Finance Code 001. The authors also acknowledge the support of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq Grant Nos. 304721/2017-4 and 435962/2018-3), Foundation for Research Support of the Federal District (FAPDF) (Projects 0193.002014/2017-68 and 0193.001563/2017), CEB Geração S.A. (PD-05160-1904/2019), and University of Brasília.

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International Journal of Geomechanics
Volume 21Issue 8August 2021

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Received: Feb 3, 2021
Accepted: Mar 5, 2021
Published online: Jun 4, 2021
Published in print: Aug 1, 2021
Discussion open until: Nov 4, 2021

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Mateus Bezerra Alves da Costa [email protected]
Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of Brasília, Brasília, DF 70910-900, Brazil. Email: [email protected]
André Luís Brasil Cavalcante, Ph.D. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4980-1450 [email protected]
Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of Brasília, Brasília, DF 70910-900, Brazil (corresponding author). ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4980-1450. Email: [email protected]

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