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Xiong Zhang [email protected]
Asst. Prof., Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Univ. of Alaska-Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775. E-mail: [email protected]
Robert L. Lytton [email protected]
F.J. Benson Chair, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX 77843-3136. E-mail: [email protected]

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