1 Kimberly Sward, Westinghouse Electric Co., LLC, [email protected] 2 Janis P. Terpenny, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, [email protected] Direct all correspondence on this paper to JP Terpenny. 3 William G. Sullivan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, [email protected] The authors gratefully acknowledge the funding received from the National Science...

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