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Received: Oct 2, 2018
Accepted: Mar 19, 2020
Published online: Jun 9, 2022
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Discussion open until: Nov 9, 2022

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Mohammad Amin Hariri-Ardebili [email protected]
Ph.D., Affiliated Researcher and Lecturer, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; Research Scientist, X-Elastica LLC, CO (corresponding author). Email: [email protected]
Jerzy W. Salamon
Ph.D., P.E., Chairman, USSD Committee on Concrete Dams, Denver, CO.
M.Sc., P.E., Collaborative Researcher, X-Elastica LLC, Boulder, CO. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9213-8928

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