Evaluation and upgrading web-gap distortion retrofits in steel girder bridges
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Advanced Structural Engineering
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2008-3556,2008-6695
DOI: 10.1007/s40091-019-00240-y