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Translated from Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitel'stvo, No. 1, pp. 49–52, January, 1979.
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Airapetyan, R.A. Prevention of cracking in earth dams. Hydrotechnical Construction 13, 82–86 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02304323
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