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Closure to “Degradation-Related Changes in Ballast Gradation and Aggregate Particle Morphology” by Yu Qian, Huseyin Boler, Maziar Moaveni, Erol Tutumluer, Youssef M. A. Hashash, and Jamshid Ghaboussi

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Received: Oct 3, 2017
Accepted: Nov 9, 2017
Published online: Mar 14, 2018
Published in print: May 1, 2018
Discussion open until: Aug 14, 2018

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Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of South Carolina, 300 Main St., Columbia, SC 29208 (corresponding author). ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8543-2774. E-mail: [email protected]
Huseyin Boler, S.M.ASCE [email protected]
Ph.D. Student, Graduate Research Assistant, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 205 North Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801. E-mail: [email protected]
Maziar Moaveni, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE [email protected]
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 205 North Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801. E-mail: [email protected]
Erol Tutumluer, Ph.D., M.ASCE [email protected]
Professor, Paul F. Kent Endowed Faculty Scholar, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 205 North Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801. E-mail: [email protected]
Youssef M. A. Hashash, Ph.D., F.ASCE [email protected]
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Professor, William J. and Elaine F. Hall Endowed Professor, John Burkitt Webb Endowed Faculty Scholar, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 205 North Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801. E-mail: [email protected]
Jamshid Ghaboussi, Ph.D., M.ASCE [email protected]
Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 205 North Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801. E-mail: [email protected]

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