Manolis Veveakis | Scholars@Duke

Manolis Veveakis
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Manolis Veveakis earned a Ph.D. in 2010 from the Department of Mechanics of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. Before joining Duke University, he was a Senior Lecturer at UNSW's School of Petroleum Engineering since 2014 and a Research Scientist in CSIRO's Division of Earth Sciences and Resource Engineering before that. Veveakis holds a Diploma (BSc+MEng) in Applied Mathematics and Physics (MEng in Materials Engineering), an MSc in Applied Mechanics and a PhD in Geomechanics.

Current Research Interests

Geomechanics, theoretical and applied mechanics, and thermodynamics, with emphasis in multiphysical modelling of plasticity of solids, solid-fluid interactions, friction laws and rheology of geomaterials

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering 2018

Contact Information

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., National Technical University of Athens (Greece) 2010
Duke Appointment History
- Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering 2017 - 2018
Academic Positions Outside Duke
- Senior Lecturer, University of New South Wales, Australia. 2014 - 2018
- Research Scientist, CSIRO Australia. 2012 - 2014
Recognition
In the News
- JAN 17, 2020 Pratt School of Engineering
  
  Observing the Unobservable: Models Predict the Mechanical Origins of Earthquakes
Expertise
Subject Headings
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
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  - Rattez, Hadrien, and Manolis Veveakis. “Weak phases production and heat generation control fault friction during seismic slip.” Nature Communications 11, no. 1 (January 17, 2020): 350. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14252-5.
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  - Lin, J., M. Sari, S. Alevizos, M. Veveakis, and T. Poulet. “A heuristic model inversion for coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical modelling of triaxial experiments.” Computers and Geotechnics 117 (January 1, 2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compgeo.2019.103278.
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  - Sari, M., S. Alevizos, T. Poulet, J. Lin, and M. Veveakis. “A visco-plastic framework for interface processes in sedimentary reservoir rocks at HPHT conditions.” Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment, January 1, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gete.2019.100165.
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  - Alevizos, S., T. Poulet, S. D. C. Walsh, T. Mohr Durdez, M. Veveakis, and K. Regenauer-Lieb. “The dynamics of multiscale, multiphysics faults: Part II - Episodic stick-slip can turn the jelly sandwich into a crème brûlée.” Tectonophysics 746 (October 30, 2018): 659–68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2017.06.010.
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  - Regenauer-Lieb, K., T. Poulet, M. Veveakis, and S. Alevizos. “The dynamics of multiscale, multiphysics faults: Part I - The long-term behaviour of the lithosphere.” Tectonophysics 746 (October 30, 2018): 648–58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2017.06.011.
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  - Rattez, H., I. Stefanou, J. Sulem, M. Veveakis, and T. Poulet. “Numerical Analysis of Strain Localization in Rocks with Thermo-hydro-mechanical Couplings Using Cosserat Continuum.” Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering 51, no. 10 (October 1, 2018): 3295–3311. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-018-1529-7.
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  - Rattez, H., I. Stefanou, J. Sulem, M. Veveakis, and T. Poulet. “The importance of Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical couplings and microstructure to strain localization in 3D continua with application to seismic faults. Part II: Numerical implementation and post-bifurcation analysis.” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 115 (June 1, 2018): 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2018.03.003.
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  - Liu, J., J. Sarout, M. Zhang, J. Dautriat, E. Veveakis, and K. Regenauer-Lieb. “Computational upscaling of Drucker-Prager plasticity from micro-CT images of synthetic porous rock.” Geophysical Journal International 212, no. 1 (January 1, 2018): 151–63. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggx409.
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  - Lesueur, M., M. C. Casadiego, M. Veveakis, and T. Poulet. “Modelling fluid-microstructure interaction on elasto-visco-plastic digital rocks.” Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment 12 (December 1, 2017): 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gete.2017.08.001.
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  - Hu, M., M. Veveakis, T. Poulet, and K. Regenauer-Lieb. “The Role of Temperature in Shear Instability and Bifurcation of Internally Pressurized Deep Boreholes.” Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering 50, no. 11 (November 1, 2017): 3003–17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-017-1291-2.
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  - Kelka, Ulrich, Manolis Veveakis, Daniel Koehn, and Nicolas Beaudoin. “Zebra rocks: compaction waves create ore deposits.” Scientific Reports 7, no. 1 (October 27, 2017): 14260. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-14541-3.
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  - Alevizos, S., T. Poulet, M. Sari, M. Lesueur, K. Regenauer-Lieb, and M. Veveakis. “A Framework for Fracture Network Formation in Overpressurised Impermeable Shale: Deformability Versus Diagenesis.” Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering 50, no. 3 (March 1, 2017): 689–703. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-016-0996-y.
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  - Poulet, T., M. Paesold, and M. Veveakis. “Multi-Physics Modelling of Fault Mechanics Using REDBACK: A Parallel Open-Source Simulator for Tightly Coupled Problems.” Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering 50, no. 3 (March 1, 2017): 733–49. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-016-0927-y.
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  - Veveakis, E., S. Alevizos, and T. Poulet. “Episodic Tremor and Slip (ETS) as a chaotic multiphysics spring.” Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 264 (March 1, 2017): 20–34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2016.10.002.
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  - Yuen, D. A., S. Ni, Y. Wang, C. Xu, and M. Veveakis. “Multiscale assessment of micro-seismicity and slow earthquakes.” Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 264 (March 1, 2017): 18–19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2017.02.005.
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  - Tung, R., T. Poulet, S. Alevizos, E. Veveakis, and K. Regenauer-Lieb. “Shear heating in creeping faults changes the onset of convection.” Geophysical Journal International 211, no. 1 (January 1, 2017): 270–83. https://doi.org/10.1093/GJI/GGX295.
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  - Alevizos, S., T. Poulet, M. Veveakis, and K. Regenauer-Lieb. “Analysis of dynamics in multiphysics modelling of active faults.” Mathematics 4, no. 4 (December 1, 2016). https://doi.org/10.3390/math4040057.
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  - Yuen, D. A., S. Ni, Y. Wang, C. Xu, and M. Veveakis. “Forward to the Special Issue in Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors on Multiscale Assessment of Micro-Seismicity and Slow Earthquakes.” Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 261 (December 1, 2016): 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2016.10.006.
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  - Moore, J., A. Karrech, M. Small, E. Veveakis, and K. Regenauer-Lieb. “Dissipative propagation of pressure waves along the slip-lines of yielding material.” International Journal of Engineering Science 107 (October 1, 2016): 149–68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijengsci.2016.07.009.
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  - Peters, M., M. Herwegh, M. K. Paesold, T. Poulet, K. Regenauer-Lieb, and M. Veveakis. “Boudinage and folding as an energy instability in ductile deformation.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 121, no. 5 (May 1, 2016): 3996–4013. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JB012801.
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  - Poulet, T., and M. Veveakis. “A viscoplastic approach for pore collapse in saturated soft rocks using REDBACK: An open-source parallel simulator for Rock mEchanics with Dissipative feedBACKs.” Computers and Geotechnics 74 (April 1, 2016): 211–21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compgeo.2015.12.015.
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  - Paesold, M. K., A. P. Bassom, K. Regenauer-Lieb, and M. Veveakis. “Conditions for the localisation of plastic deformation in temperature sensitive viscoplastic materials.” Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures 11, no. 2 (January 1, 2016): 113–36. https://doi.org/10.2140/jomms.2016.11.113.
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  - Regenauer-Lieb, K., T. Poulet, and M. Veveakis. “A novel wave-mechanics approach for fluid flow in unconventional resources.” Leading Edge 35, no. 1 (January 1, 2016): 90–97. https://doi.org/10.1190/tle35010090.1.
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  - Roshan, H., M. Sari, H. Arandiyan, Y. Hu, P. Mostaghimi, M. Sarmadivaleh, H. Masoumi, M. Veveakis, S. Iglauer, and K. Regenauer-Lieb. “Total porosity of tight rocks: A welcome to the heat transfer technique.” Energy and Fuels 30, no. 12 (January 1, 2016): 10072–79. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.6b01339.
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  - Peters, M., M. Veveakis, T. Poulet, A. Karrech, M. Herwegh, and K. Regenauer-Lieb. “Boudinage as a material instability of elasto-visco-plastic rocks.” Journal of Structural Geology 78 (September 1, 2015): 86–102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2015.06.005.
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  - Weinberg, R. F., E. Veveakis, and K. Regenauer-Lieb. “Compaction-driven melt segregation in migmatites.” Geology 43, no. 6 (April 24, 2015): 471–74. https://doi.org/10.1130/G36562.1.
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  - Regenauer-Lieb, K., A. Bunger, H. T. Chua, A. Dyskin, F. Fusseis, O. Gaede, R. Jeffrey, et al. “Deep geothermal: The ‘Moon Landing’ mission in the unconventional energy and minerals space.” Journal of Earth Science 26, no. 1 (January 1, 2015): 2–10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12583-015-0515-1.
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  - Regenauer-Lieb, K., M. Veveakis, T. Poulet, M. Paesold, G. Rosenbaum, R. F. Weinberg, and A. Karrech. “Multiscale, multiphysics geomechanics for geodynamics applied to buckling instabilities in the middle of the Australian craton.” Philosophical Magazine 95, no. 28–30 (January 1, 2015): 3055–77. https://doi.org/10.1080/14786435.2015.1066517.
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  - Veveakis, E., K. Regenauer-Lieb, and R. F. Weinberg. “Ductile compaction of partially molten rocks: The effect of non-linear viscous rheology on instability and segregation.” Geophysical Journal International 200, no. 1 (January 1, 2015): 519–23. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggu412.
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  - Veveakis, E., and K. Regenauer-Lieb. “Review of extremum postulates.” Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering 7 (January 1, 2015): 40–46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coche.2014.10.006.
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  - Veveakis, E., and K. Regenauer-Lieb. “Cnoidal waves in solids Dedicated to Professor Ioannis Vardoulakis.” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 78 (January 1, 2015): 231–48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2015.02.010.
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  - Poulet, T., M. Veveakis, M. Herwegh, T. Buckingham, and K. Regenauer-Lieb. “Modeling episodic fluid-release events in the ductile carbonates of the Glarus thrust.” Geophysical Research Letters 41, no. 20 (October 28, 2014): 7121–28. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014GL061715.
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  - Alevizos, S., T. Poulet, and E. Veveakis. “Thermo-poro-mechanics of chemically active creeping faults. 1: Theory and steady state considerations.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 119, no. 6 (January 1, 2014): 4558–82. https://doi.org/10.1002/2013JB010070.
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  - Poulet, T., E. Veveakis, K. Regenauer-Lieb, D. A. Yuen, and M. Veveakis. “Thermo-poro-mechanics of chemically active creeping faults: 3. the role of serpentinite in episodic tremor and slip sequences, and transition to chaos.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 119, no. 6 (January 1, 2014): 4606–25. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JB011004.
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  - Veveakis, E., T. Poulet, and S. Alevizos. “Thermo-poro-mechanics of chemically active creeping faults: 2. Transient considerations.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 119, no. 6 (January 1, 2014): 4583–4605. https://doi.org/10.1002/2013JB010071.
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  - Veveakis, E., and K. Regenauer-Lieb. “The Fluid Dynamics of Solid Mechanical Shear Zones.” Pure and Applied Geophysics 171, no. 11 (January 1, 2014): 3159–74. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-014-0835-6.
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  - Veveakis, M., I. Stefanou, and J. Sulem. “Failure in shear bands for granular materials: Thermo-hydro-chemo-mechanical effects.” Geotechnique Letters 3, no. APRIL/JUN (November 19, 2013): 31–36. https://doi.org/10.1680/geolett.12.00063.
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  - Regenauer-Lieb, Klaus, Manolis Veveakis, Thomas Poulet, Florian Wellmann, Ali Karrech, Jie Liu, Juerg Hauser, et al. “Multiscale coupling and multiphysics approaches in earth sciences: Applications.” Journal of Coupled Systems and Multiscale Dynamics 1, no. 3 (September 1, 2013): 281–323. https://doi.org/10.1166/jcsmd.2013.1021.
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  - Regenauer-Lieb, Klaus, Manolis Veveakis, Thomas Poulet, Florian Wellmann, Ali Karrech, Jie Liu, Juerg Hauser, Christoph Schrank, Oliver Gaede, and Mike Trefry. “Multiscale coupling and multiphysics approaches in earth sciences: Theory.” Journal of Coupled Systems and Multiscale Dynamics 1, no. 1 (April 1, 2013): 49–73. https://doi.org/10.1166/jcsmd.2013.1012.
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  - Veveakis, E., J. Sulem, and I. Stefanou. “Modeling of fault gouges with Cosserat Continuum Mechanics: Influence of thermal pressurization and chemical decomposition as coseismic weakening mechanisms.” Journal of Structural Geology 38 (May 1, 2012): 254–64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2011.09.012.
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  - Cecinato, F., A. Zervos, and E. Veveakis. “A thermo-mechanical model for the catastrophic collapse of large landslides.” International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics 35, no. 14 (October 10, 2011): 1507–35. https://doi.org/10.1002/nag.963.
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  - Papanicolopulos, S. A., and E. Veveakis. “Sliding and rolling dissipation in Cosserat plasticity.” Granular Matter 13, no. 3 (June 1, 2011): 197–204. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10035-011-0253-8.
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  - Sulem, J., I. Stefanou, and E. Veveakis. “Stability analysis of undrained adiabatic shearing of a rock layer with Cosserat microstructure.” Granular Matter 13, no. 3 (June 1, 2011): 261–68. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10035-010-0244-1.
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  - Alevizos, Sotirios, Eleni Gerolymatou, and Emmanuil Vevakis. “Thermoporomechanics of landslides. A review of the Vaiont slide.” European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering 14, no. 8–9 (September 28, 2010): 1185–98. https://doi.org/10.3166/ejece.14.1185-1198.
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  - Veveakis, E., S. Alevizos, and I. Vardoulakis. “Chemical reaction capping of thermal instabilities during shear of frictional faults.” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 58, no. 9 (September 1, 2010): 1175–94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2010.06.010.
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  - Alevizos, S., E. Gerolymatou, and E. Veveakis. “Thermoporomechanics of landslides: A review of the vaiont slide.” European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering 14, no. 8–9 (January 1, 2010): 1185–98. https://doi.org/10.1080/19648189.2010.9693287.
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  - Veveakis, E., I. Vardoulakis, and G. Di Toro. “Thermoporomechanics of creeping landslides: The 1963 Vaiont slide, northern Italy.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 112, no. 3 (September 24, 2007). https://doi.org/10.1029/2006JF000702.
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- Book Sections
  - Hu, M., M. Veveakis, T. Poulet, and K. Regenauer-Lieb. “Thermo-hydro-mechanics in shear fracturing in geothermal reservoirs,” 327–33, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56397-8_41.
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  - Lesueur, M., M. Camila Casadiego, T. Poulet, and M. Veveakis. “Framework for multiscale flow simulation of deformable rocks,” 475–80, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56397-8_60.
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  - Lin, J., M. Sari, T. Poulet, and M. Veveakis. “An inversion framework for numerical modelling of pore collapse in soft porous rocks,” 319–25, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56397-8_40.
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  - Prassa, C., S. Alevizos, M. Veveakis, and Y. F. Dafalias. “The effect of rotational and isotropic hardening on the onset of compaction bands,” 147–53, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56397-8_19.
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  - Rattez, H., I. Stefanou, J. Sulem, M. Veveakis, and T. Poulet. “Localisation of deformation for shearing of a fault gouge with cosserat microstructure and different couplings,” 155–60, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56397-8_20.
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  - Veveakis, M., T. Poulet, S. Alevizos, and M. Paesold. “Bifurcation criteria for strain localization in multiphysical systems,” 201–6, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56397-8_26.
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  - Vardoulakis, I., and E. Veveakis. “Thermo-poro mechanical analysis of catastrophic landslides,” 429–35, 2009.
  - Vardoulakis, I., and E. Veveakis. “Thermo-poro mechanical analysis of catastrophic landslides.” In Prediction and Simulation Methods for Geohazard Mitigation, 249–436, 2009.
  - Cecinato, F., A. Zervos, E. Veveakis, and I. Vardoulakis. “Numerical modelling of the thermo-mechanical behaviour of soils in catastrophic landslides.” In Landslides and Engineered Slopes. From the Past to the Future, 615–21. CRC Press, 2008. https://doi.org/10.1201/9780203885284-c73.
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- Conference Papers
  - Lesueur, M., T. Poulet, and M. Veveakis. “Pressure equilibration induced by reactivation of deep carbonate faults.” In 5th International Conference on Fault and Top Seals 2019, 2019.
  - Kurdi, M., M. Veveakis, and T. Poulet. “Leveraging supercritical CO2 to rejuvenate hydraulically fractured wells in unconventional reservoirs.” In Society of Petroleum Engineers Spe Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition 2018, Sats 2018, 2018.
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