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Volume 141Issue 5May 2015

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Received: May 9, 2013
Accepted: Jul 19, 2013
Published online: Nov 6, 2014
Discussion open until: Apr 6, 2015
Published in print: May 1, 2015

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Hubert Chanson [email protected]
Professor, School of Civil Engineering, Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia. E-mail: [email protected]

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