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DECOVALEX-2019: An international collaboration for advancing the understanding and modeling of coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical (THMC) processes in geological systems

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROCK MECHANICS AND MINING SCIENCES (2022)

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