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All issues Volume 18 / No 3 (2017) Mechanics & Industry, 18 3 (2017) 312 References
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Mechanics & Industry
Volume 18, Number 3, 2017
Article Number 312
Number of page(s) 14
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/meca/2016059
Published online 24 May 2017
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