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Received: Oct 9, 2008
Accepted: Oct 16, 2008
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Robert Bea, Ph.D., F.ASCE
Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA.
David O’Reilly
Doctoral candidate, Univ. of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA.

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