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This work is supported by Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51890912, 52209124, 51879035 and 51909249), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2021M700672), the Doctoral Research Foundation Program of Liaoning Natural Science Foundation (2022-BS-087), Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation (LQ19E090001) and Open Research Fund of State Key Laboratory of Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Grant NO. SKLGME021020. The first author would like to acknowledge the financial support from China Scholarship Council.
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Received: Dec 12, 2022
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