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Volume 142Issue 6June 2016

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Received: Oct 1, 2015
Accepted: Oct 6, 2015
Published online: Feb 2, 2016
Published in print: Jun 1, 2016
Discussion open until: Jul 2, 2016

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Gholamreza Mesri, M.ASCE [email protected]
Ralph B. Peck Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801 (corresponding author). E-mail: [email protected]
J. R. Funk, S.M.ASCE
Geotechnical Engineer, Shannon & Wilson, Inc., 1321 Bannock St., Seattle, WA 98103.

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