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Volume 19Issue 10October 2014

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Received: Mar 27, 2014
Accepted: Jun 12, 2014
Published online: Jul 24, 2014
Published in print: Oct 1, 2014
Discussion open until: Dec 24, 2014

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Said M. Easa, M.ASCE [email protected]
Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Ryerson Univ., Toronto, ON, Canada M5B 2K3. E-mail: [email protected]

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