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Volume 27Issue 11November 2015

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Received: Jul 1, 2014
Accepted: Sep 3, 2014
Published online: Aug 6, 2015
Published in print: Nov 1, 2015
Discussion open until: Jan 6, 2016

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Assistant Professor, Collage of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou 310058, P.R. China. E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]

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