About the author  ⁄ Ganesh Thiagarajan Ph.D., P.E.

Ganesh Thiagarajan, Ph.D., P.E., is an Associate Professor and the Director of Graduate Program for Civil Engineering at the University of Missouri Kansas City (UMKC), Kansas City, Missouri. He is a member of ASCE, ACI and SEAKM (SEAKansas and Missouri). He can be reached at ganesht@umkc.edu.

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