CONTRIBUTORS

Aisa Biria
Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0C3,
Canada
Eliot Fried
Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0C3,
Canada
Mohsen Maleki
Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0C3,
Canada
Laurent Stainier
Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering (GeM), Ecole Centrale Nantes, 1 rue
de la Noe, F-44321 Nantes, France
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