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M. H. Afshar [email protected]
Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Iran Univ. of Science and Tech., Narmak, Tehran, Iran 16844. E-mail: [email protected]
Ph.D. Student, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Iran Univ. of Science and Tech., Narmak, Tehran, Iran 16844. E-mail: [email protected]
M. A. Marino [email protected]
Professor, Dept. of Land, Air, and Water Resources, and Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of California, Davis, CA 95616. E-mail: [email protected]

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