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This article has been written to detail the main theme of the published paper in the journal of Transportation Infrastructure Geotechnology; entitled "Effect of Barley Straw Fiber as a Reinforcement on the Mechanical Behavior of Babolsar Sand’ for enhancing the content integrity to be considered as a discussion paper of Ali Vafaei et al. (Transp Infrastruct Geotech, 2023).
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Cherif Taiba, A., Mahmoudi, Y. & Belkhatir, M. Discussion of “Effect of Barley Straw Fiber as a Reinforcement on the Mechanical Behavior of Babolsar Sand”, by Ali Vafaei et al. (2023), published in Transportation Infrastructure Geotechnology, DOI.org/10.1007/s40515-023-00281-7. Transp. Infrastruct. Geotech. 11, 703–710 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40515-023-00302-5
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