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Volume 32Issue 4April 2020

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Received: Jun 17, 2019
Accepted: Oct 11, 2019
Published online: Feb 7, 2020
Published in print: Apr 1, 2020
Discussion open until: Jul 7, 2020

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Research Fellow, Key Laboratory of Transport Industry of Road Structure and Material, Research Institute of Highway Ministry of Transport, Beijing 100088, China; and Graduate Research Assistant, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996. Email: [email protected]
Edwin G. Burdette Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996 (corresponding author). ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8551-0082. Email: [email protected]

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