Closure to “Transitional Behaviors in Well-Graded Coarse Granular Soils” by Yang Xiao, M. R. Coop, Hong Liu, Hanlong Liu, and Jingshan Jiang
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The authors would like to express their gratitude to the editor for processing this closure and the discussers for their interest in the original work. The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51678094 and 51509024) and the Project funded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2016M590864).
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Received: May 6, 2017
Accepted: Jun 9, 2017
Published online: Sep 25, 2017
Published in print: Dec 1, 2017
Discussion open until: Feb 25, 2018
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