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Discussion of “Feasibility of Impulse Response Test for Characterizing Railway Ballast” by Prajwol Tamrakar, Soheil Nazarian, Jose L. Garibay, and Hoda Azari

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Volume 31Issue 1January 2019

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Received: May 8, 2018
Accepted: May 17, 2018
Published online: Oct 22, 2018
Published in print: Jan 1, 2019
Discussion open until: Mar 22, 2019

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Vishnu Diyaljee, Ph.D., F.ASCE [email protected]
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Managing Director, GAEA Engineering, Ltd., 33 Ashby Field Rd., Brampton, ON, Canada L6X 0R4. Email: [email protected]

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