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Paul Sunday Nnamchi1,2,3\* and Camillus Sunday Obayi1

1 Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria

2 Department of Mechanical and Construction Engineering, Wynne Jones Building, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

3 Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Agbani, Enugu State, Nigeria

\*Address all correspondence to: paul.nnamchi@esut.edu.ng; paul.nnamchi@northumberia.ac.uk

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