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Original Articles

Development of correlation between SPT-N value and shear wave velocity and estimation of non-linear seismic site effects for soft deposits in Kolkata city

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Pages 1-19 | Received 26 Mar 2019, Accepted 20 Jun 2019, Published online: 22 Jul 2019

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