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Title: Responses of concrete-filled FRP tubular and concrete-filled FRP-steel double skin tubular columns under horizontal impact
Award ID(s):
1230351
PAR ID:
10297507
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Thin-Walled Structures
Volume:
155
Issue:
C
ISSN:
0263-8231
Page Range / eLocation ID:
106941
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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