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The first author thanks the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51708332) for funding the work presented in this paper. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program FP7-ERC-IDEAS Advanced Grant Agreement No. 290963 (SOMEF) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Project CMMI-1162096. Pengcheng Fu’s contribution was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. This paper is LLNL report LLNL-JRNL-694799. The discussers gratefully thank Professor Yannis F. Dafalias and Professor Jian-Min Zhang for supporting and guiding this work.

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Volume 18Issue 1January 2018

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Received: Jun 17, 2016
Accepted: Nov 8, 2016
Published online: Oct 20, 2017
Published in print: Jan 1, 2018
Discussion open until: Mar 20, 2018

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Rui Wang, M.ASCE [email protected]
Assistant Researcher, Dept. of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua Univ., Beijing 100084, China (corresponding author). E-mail: [email protected]
Pengcheng Fu
Staff Scientist, Atmospheric, Earth, and Energy Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Ave., Livermore, CA 94551.
Zhaoxia Tong
Associate Professor, School of Transportation Science and Engineering, Beihang Univ., Beijing 100191, China.

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