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Youventharan Duraisamy1 \* and David Airey2

1 Department of Civil Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Kuantan, Malaysia

2 School of Civil Engineering, The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia

\*Address all correspondence to: youventharan@ump.edu.my

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