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Closure to “Intact, Disturbed, and Reconstituted Undrained Shear Behavior of Low-Plasticity Natural Silt” by Øyvind Blaker and Don J. DeGroot

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Received: Apr 20, 2021
Accepted: Jun 29, 2021
Published online: Aug 30, 2021
Published in print: Nov 1, 2021
Discussion open until: Jan 30, 2022

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Senior Engineer, Dept. of Advanced Modelling, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, P.O. Box 3930, Ullevål Stadion, Oslo N-0806, Norway (corresponding author). ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4532-4618. Email: [email protected]
Don J. DeGroot, Sc.D., M.ASCE [email protected]
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Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003. Email: [email protected]

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