The 12th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring
July 7th to 10th, 2026 | Toulouse, France
Conference Agenda
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Daily Overview |
| 7:30am - 9:00am |
Registration Location: Registration Desk |
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| 9:00am - 9:30am |
Opening Location: Auditorium |
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| 9:30am - 11:00am |
Plenary Session - 1 Location: Auditorium Innovation as a response to challenges – The French call for projects 'Connected Bridges' 10:15am - 11:00am The Digital-Physical Convergence: Scaling Structural Health Management for the Next Generation Maintenance |
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| 11:00am - 11:30am |
Coffee Break Location: Caravelle |
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| 11:30am - 12:30pm |
AI - Reliability: Artificial Intelligence - Reliability Remaining Useful Life Assessment Models for Bending Behaviour of Bonded Composite Structures: A Comparative Study 11:50am - 12:10pm Classification of automobile body repair types using multi-frequency thermography and machine learning 12:10pm - 12:30pm Hierarchical Bayesian Learning Framework for Damage Identification and Reliability Updating |
Coda: Coda Wave analysis for monitoring Preliminary Results on How Water-to-Cement Ratio Shapes the Thermal Modulation Response of Concrete 11:50am - 12:10pm Extraction of Defects Scattering Properties from Reverberating Coda Waves 12:10pm - 12:30pm Smart Aggregates and Wave Interferometry in Short-Term Static Load Tests on Zeeland Bridge: Insights from an Ongoing Two-Year Field Lab |
Contactless sensing: Contactless sensing Low-Cost FMCW Radar for Full-Field Vibration Monitoring of Bridges 11:50am - 12:10pm Characterization of Backscatter-based RF Phase Response to Water Content in Levees 12:10pm - 12:30pm Damage Localization in Lattice Sandwich Structures based on Local Dynamic Responses |
GW - Nonlinear - 1: Guided Waves - Nonlinear - 1 Acousto-Optic Tomography-Holography: Sensitive Damage Imaging in Composites by Nonlinear Acoustic Wave Modulation Spectroscopy 11:50am - 12:10pm Baseline-free imaging of artificial defects in a composite plate using asynchronous pump-probe amplitude modulation technique 12:10pm - 12:30pm Early Detection of Bolt Loosening Based on Thermo-elastic-plastic Interference on Vibro-acoustically Modulated Elastic Waves |
| SHM for Wind Turbine - 1: SHM for Wind Turbine - 1 Physics-Driven Integration of Trend Monitoring and Change Point Detection for Wind Turbine Blade SHM: An Experimental Validation 11:50am - 12:10pm Structural Health Monitoring of Wind Turbines through an Automated Operational Modal Analysis Workflow 12:10pm - 12:30pm A Parametric UMAP Dimensionality Reduction and LightGBM Framework for Bolted Joint Health Monitoring in Offshore Wind Turbine Support Structures |
SS1 - 1: Damage detectability and effects of environmental and operational variability in structural health monitoring - 1 Case Study on Temperature Effects on Bridge Frequencies 11:50am - 12:10pm Feature‑Family Benchmarking for Smart Damage Detection Across Distinct Structural Systems 12:10pm - 12:30pm Closed-Form Sensitivity Analysis of the Background, Resonant, and Inertial Responses of Floating Structures |
SS11 - 1: AI-powered structural sensing and health monitoring for civil engineering structures - 1 Unsupervised Deep Feature Engineering for Scour Monitoring in Railway Bridges Using Drive-by Measurements 11:50am - 12:10pm Unsupervised Defect Localization in Wind Turbine Blades from Drone Data: Adapting Deep Feature Reconstruction for Large-Scale Blade Inspection 12:10pm - 12:30pm Multi-physical SHM of concrete durability indicators using AI |
SS12 - 1: Advances in the application of the inverse Finite Element Method (iFEM) for real-time Deformation Reconstruction, Damage Detection, and Structural Health Monitoring - 1 Applied Computational Framework for Robust Inverse Finite Element Analysis and Digital Twin Programs: Integrating ABAQUS and iFEM 11:50am - 12:10pm Effect of Mesh Resolution and Data Sparsity on the Deformation Reconstruction and Strain Sensing using iFEM Methodology 12:10pm - 12:30pm Regularized iFEM/GBT for efficient Structural Health Monitoring of Thin-Walled Members |
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| SS15 - 1: Advancements in Smart Materials and Structures for SHM in Civil Engineering - 1 Self-Monitoring of Cracks Healing Process in TRC elements 11:50am - 12:10pm Strain-sensing behavior of smart cement-based composites under cyclic load 12:10pm - 12:30pm From Color Shift to Crack Monitoring: Mechanochromic Coatings as a new sensing technique |
SS21 - 1: Fiber-Optic Sensing for Sustainable and Scalable Structural Health Monitoring - 1 Opto-electronic system for ultrasonic waves measurement using Fiber Bragg Gratings sensors 11:50am - 12:10pm Effective model of Fiber Bragg Gratings for simulation of ultrasound measurements using Spectral finite elements 12:10pm - 12:30pm Investigation of micro ring resonator as a ultrasonic Guided wave sensor |
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| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
Lunch Location: Caravelle |
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| 2:00pm - 3:40pm |
AI - Deep learning - 1: Artificial Intelligence - Deep learning - 1 Gated Multi-GPT Fusion for Unsupervised Structural Health Monitoring of Bridge Structures 2:20pm - 2:40pm A Deep Learning Framework for Predicting Fluid-induced Vibration and Fatigue Life in Pipelines 2:40pm - 3:00pm Rank-Reduction Autoencoder (RRAE): A Breakthrough Nonlinear Model-Order Reduction Framework for Next-Generation Structural Damage Detection 3:00pm - 3:20pm A Fault Diagnosis Method for Liquid Rocket Engines Based on a Propagation-Aware Dynamic Graph Network 3:20pm - 3:40pm An Adaptive Unsupervised Structural Health Monitoring Approach Using an Exclusion-Guided Convolutional Autoencoder |
GW - Nonlinear - 2: Guided Waves - Nonlinear - 2 Dual-Scale Nonlinear Dissipation Indicators (HF/LF) for Early Fatigue Damage Detection in Concrete Using Dynamic Acoustoelastic Testing 2:20pm - 2:40pm Nonlinear vibro-thermal damage imaging in thin plates by selective activation of defects using time-reversal elastic waves 2:40pm - 3:00pm Selected Aspects of Nonlinear Acoustics in Structural Health Monitoring Applications 3:00pm - 3:20pm Numerical Investigation on the Directionality of Nonlinear Guided Wave Path Interactions for Damage Imaging in Composite Structures 3:20pm - 3:40pm C-ADER Project: Monitoring Early-Stage Corrosion on Historical Aircraft Using Nonlinear Ultrasonic Guided Waves |
New Sensors - 1: Development of sensors and sensing elements - 1 A Robotic System for the Inspection/Monitoring of Structures using Solitary Waves 2:20pm - 2:40pm An electro-thermo-mechanical beam model for structural health monitoring of new ice protection laminate 2:40pm - 3:00pm Topological metamaterial for in and out-of-plane elastic wave conveying and signal enhancement 3:00pm - 3:20pm Impact damage identification for composite structures via laser-induced graphene-based electrical impedance tomography |
SHM for Wind Turbine - 2: SHM for Wind Turbine - 2 Initial Results for In-situ Structural Health Monitoring of Wind Turbine Blades using an FMCW Radar Network at 60GHz 2:20pm - 2:40pm Model updating of rotating wind turbines in operation for blade condition assessment 2:40pm - 3:00pm Multi-Mechanism Wearout Reliability Prediction for Long-Lifetime Optical FBGs SHM system 3:00pm - 3:20pm Field Testing of Decommissioned Wind Turbine Blades to Characterise Damage Behaviour for Operational Monitoring 3:20pm - 3:40pm Damage localization in wind turbine rotor blades using acoustic event detection |
| SS1 - 2: Damage detectability and effects of environmental and operational variability in structural health monitoring - 2 Damage detection under random and harmonic loads using autocovariance functions 2:20pm - 2:40pm Vibration-Based Robust Damage Detection Under Unobservable Operating Conditions via the re-Parametrized Functional Model Based Method 2:40pm - 3:00pm Time-dependent Residual Analysis in Grey-Box Modelling for Static Monitoring of Bridge Bearings 3:00pm - 3:20pm Unsupervised Detection of Freezing Events in Bridge Modal Frequencies 3:20pm - 3:40pm Regime-Switching Grey-Box Modelling of Stiffening Effects on Modal Parameters of a Lattice Tower |
SS11 - 2: AI-powered structural sensing and health monitoring for civil engineering structures - 2 AI-driven data synchronization in wireless structural health monitoring 2:20pm - 2:40pm Traversing blades and where to find them in visual-language latent landscapes: Exploring contextual computer-vision domains and model compression for tower-radar rotor monitoring 2:40pm - 3:00pm An Image-Based SHM Framework for Multi-Year Pavement Deterioration Modeling 3:00pm - 3:20pm Remaining useful life estimation of a railway bridge based on real traffic data 3:20pm - 3:40pm A Scalable AI-Driven Framework for Automated Road Condition Monitoring and Pavement Assessment |
SS12 - 2: Advances in the application of the inverse Finite Element Method (iFEM) for real-time Deformation Reconstruction, Damage Detection, and Structural Health Monitoring - 2 A novel iFEM-based framework for shape sensing in stiffened panels 2:20pm - 2:40pm Displacement Reconstruction and Sensor Placement Optimization of a Semi-Submersible Platform Based on the Inverse Finite Element Method 2:40pm - 3:00pm Full-Field Strain and Stress Reconstruction Using a Hybrid ML–iFEM Approach 3:00pm - 3:20pm Shape sensing in plane elasticity using strain measurements and hybrid-Trefftz inverse finite element method 3:20pm - 3:40pm Application of inverse finite element method in deformation monitoring of ship stiffened plate structure |
SS15 - 2: Advancements in Smart Materials and Structures for SHM in Civil Engineering - 2 Short and Continuous Carbon Fibers for Self-Monitoring Concrete Elements 2:20pm - 2:40pm Embedded Fiber Optic Sensing for Structural Health Monitoring in Large Format Additive Manufacturing: An Integrated Approach 2:40pm - 3:00pm Thermo-electrical responsive performances of ultra-high performance concrete for structural health self-adjusting and self-monitoring 3:00pm - 3:20pm Resistivity-Derived Features for Anomaly Detection in Self-Sensing Concrete under Monotonic and Ramp–Hold Loading 3:20pm - 3:40pm Smart Materials Electrometer V2.0: Evaluating Piezoresistance in Smart Construction Materials at Medium-Scale. |
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| SS21 - 2: Fiber-Optic Sensing for Sustainable and Scalable Structural Health Monitoring - 2 Ultrasonic waves measurements in stainless steel at high temperatures with microvoid femtosecond Fiber Bragg Gratings 2:20pm - 2:40pm DFOS-Based Monitoring of a Composite Railway Bridge with Embedded Fibres 2:40pm - 3:00pm Traffic-Induced Structural Response Monitoring of Bridges Using Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing 3:00pm - 3:20pm Rockfall Monitoring for Highways Based on Distributed Fiber Optics and Model Merging 3:20pm - 3:40pm Implementation of Distributed Fiber Optic Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring in New Bridge Structures |
SS3 - 1: Reliability and Quality Assessment of SHM systems - 1 Reliability Assessment of GWSHM system of pipes: Augmented POD method 2:20pm - 2:40pm Fusion Strategies for Probability of Detection: methods and guidelines 2:40pm - 3:00pm The Distance-Weighted ROC for Performance Evaluation of Damage Localization 3:00pm - 3:20pm NOI-POMDP: A Noise-Explicit POMDP Framework for Structural Health Monitoring 3:20pm - 3:40pm A Performance Evaluation Methodology for Reconfigurable Ultrasonic Sparse Arrays Used in Mobile Structural Health Monitoring |
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| 3:40pm - 4:20pm |
Poster Session - 1: Poster Session - 1 Location: Hall Ariane A Hybrid IoT-Digital Twin Framework for Real-Time Serviceability Assessment of RC Beams Integrating Adaptive Kalman Filtering and Temporal Convolutional Networks A Practical Approach to Structural Monitoring Using Sensor-Integrated Bolts Development of a Carbon Nanotube-Based Polymer Composite Energy Harvester for Civil Structures An Adaptive State-Space Filtering Framework for Maglev Guideway Monitoring Using Onboard Sensing Results of Fundamental Vibration Periods and Vertical Displacements from Dynamic and Static Load Tests to Evaluate the Structural Safety of a Curved Steel I-Girder Railway Span with Large Clear Spans. Development of non-intrusive integration strategies within manufacturing processes Guided Wave based Damage Characterisation and Localization in Composite Wind Turbine Blades Surrogate-assisted Optimal Bayesian design of Experiments Mode Isolation under Multi Point Excitation for Composite Damage Detection Dataset-Based, Feature-Enhanced Classification and Tranfer Learning for Acoustic Defect Detection in Historical Plasters Lamb wave signal processing for wireless transmission systems Monitoring of Crack Growth of Composite Plates using Carbon Fiber Sensors Detection of MMOD impact damage for inflatable space structures by using CNT sensing layer State of the art of drift and failures in Wireless Sensor Systems for Structural Health Monitoring Risk evaluation of transportation network system with spaceborne synthetic aperture radar technology Monitoring of fatigue crack growth for metallic structures using piezoelectric sensor network and ultrasonic guided waves Baseline-Free Structural Damage Detection with an Unsupervised Generative Model Operational Modal Analyses to Confirm the Structural Retrofit Effect on a Historic Building Field comparison between accelerometer-based and distributed optical fiber sensing for vibration monitoring in a railway tunnel AI-based Reconstruction of Compressive Full-field Ultrasonic Wavefields for Structural Damage Detection Exploring Different Modelling Approaches for Resin Front Position Estimation in CFRP Structures Using a Network of Ultrasonic Guided Wave Sensors Structural Health Monitoring by Fusing Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) and Acceleration Measurement Guided Wavefield Damage Imaging Method via Two-Dimensional Multi-Frequency Sparse Wavenumber Spectrum Reconstruction Automated AI-Aided Alert on Closure of Cable-Supported Bridges under Windstorms Feature Selection and Surrogate Modelling for Damage Assessment in a Timber Beam Experimental Assessment of Radar-Based Displacement Measurements Using Laboratory Ground Truth Vision-based 3D Deformation Reconstruction of a Composite–Wood Hybrid Structure under Transient Load Release Effect of Material Anisotropy on Time Reversibility of Lamb Waves A Steady-State Approach to Analyzing Lamb Wave Boundary Interactions in CFRP Evaluation of a Cost-effective ADXL355-Based Prototype for Acceleration and Inclination Monitoring in Railway Tunnels Automatic and autonomous SHM solution for Corrosion detection and material health characterization Low-profile and flexible printed sensors for Structural Health Monitoring Experimental validation of model-free damage detection approaches based on using modal features FBG-based guided wave mode separation Embedded AI for Autonomous Wireless Sensor Networks in Aerospatial Vehicle SHM Thermo-Hydraulic Condition Monitoring of Heat Exchangers Using FBG Sensor System FATIGUE DAMAGE MONITORING OF COMPOSITE MATERIALS THROUGH ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENTS: AN ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK An Accessible Electronic Circuit Design for Structural Health Monitoring Acoustic emission for identifying cracking modes in a prestressed concrete viaduct: A narrow-band partial power approach An approach to the development of transducers with inherent directional capabilities for guided wave applications |
Coffee Break Location: Caravelle |
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| 4:20pm - 6:20pm |
AC - CE: Application Cases - Civil Engineering Application Cases of Health Indicators for the Monitoring of Civil Structures 4:40pm - 5:00pm Bridge monitoring under heavy vehicle passage: a case of study on a real structure 5:00pm - 5:20pm Integrating Structural Instrumentation and Operational Data for Aircraft Bridge Health Monitoring 5:20pm - 5:40pm Bridge Impact Alert Algorithm 5:40pm - 6:00pm Structural Monitoring of the Sado Railway Bridge During the Bearing Replacement 6:00pm - 6:20pm Monitoring of structures in shaly rock formation |
AI - Deep learning - 2: Artificial Intelligence - Deep learning - 2 Application of Multiscale Increment Entropy and InceptionTime Model for Structural Health Monitoring 4:40pm - 5:00pm AI‑Powered Real-Time Structural Health Monitoring Using Crack Detection, Vegetation Segmentation, and Depth Analysis 5:00pm - 5:20pm Conditional Convolutional AutoEncoder with Multi-Task Learning for Context-Driven Unsupervised Structural Assessment 5:20pm - 5:40pm Vibration-based structural damage detection with deep neural network models: learning strategies and influence of the parameters problem 5:40pm - 6:00pm An Integrated Hybrid Framework for Crack Detection on Pressed Panels with Baseline-Driven False-Positive Suppression Unsupervised Adaptive Feature Enhancement Network for Reliable Guided-Wave Damage Alarm under Coupled Time-Varying Conditions |
GW - Composite - 1: Guided Waves - Composite structures - 1 Non-destructive evaluation of manufacturing defects in ultrasonically welded thermoplastic composite joints using Lamb wave 4:40pm - 5:00pm Robust Damage Detection in Airbus A380 Composite Flap Track Fairings Enabled by Phase-Frequency Coherence Imaging (PFCI) with Segmented Anisotropy Compensation 5:00pm - 5:20pm Behavior of transverse matrix cracks and their network under ultrasonic guided wave propagation in composite laminates 5:20pm - 5:40pm 2D-FFT and Directional Derivative Based Processing of Guided Ultrasonic Wave Fields for Mode Separation and Damage Analysis 5:40pm - 6:00pm Detection of matrix cracked and delaminated glass fiber reinforced plastic pipes using guided waves and a piezoelectric transducers network 6:00pm - 6:20pm In-situ monitoring of the polymerisation of an epoxy layer on a solid mold using Lamb waves. |
SS1 - 3: Damage detectability and effects of environmental and operational variability in structural health monitoring - 3 Damage Detection in Steel Structures Using a Frequency-Steerable Acoustic Transducer-Based SHM System 4:40pm - 5:00pm Estimation of GUW Dispersion Diagrams in FML at Varying Temperatures for SHM Applications 5:00pm - 5:20pm Estimation of Effective Material Properties under Varying Environmental Conditions: Application to Corrosion Monitoring with Guided Wave Tomography 5:20pm - 5:40pm Piezoelectric capacitance measurements for structural health monitoring 5:40pm - 6:00pm Temperature compensated fuel gauging using non-invasive guided waves method 6:00pm - 6:20pm Towards MAPoD and MAPoL Assessment of Guided-Wave SHM Systems under Aging Conditions: Application to a Composite Cryogenic Tank for Reusable Launch Vehicles |
| SS10 - 1: Knowledge transfer and data integration for structural health monitoring and system identification - 1 On the use of multi-task Gaussian Processes for load monitoring under data sparsity 4:40pm - 5:00pm Robust AOMA for Concrete Arch Dams: Separating Structural Modes from Harmonic Bias 5:00pm - 5:20pm Autoencoder-Assisted Domain Adaptation via Procrustes-Based Latent Alignment for Structural Health Monitoring 5:20pm - 5:40pm Integrating Remote Sensing and on-site data to derive historical time series for Long-Term structural monitoring 5:40pm - 6:00pm Towards closed-loop monitoring of a structure’s health 6:00pm - 6:20pm Determining structural monitoring thresholds based on the principles of expected utility theory |
SS11 - 3: AI-powered structural sensing and health monitoring for civil engineering structures - 3 Comparing Physical and Latent Damage-Sensitive Features 4:40pm - 5:00pm From Vibrations to Cracks: Flow-Matching Latent Diffusion for Structural Damage Localization in Masonry Arch Bridges 5:00pm - 5:20pm Unsupervised Deep Learning for Enhanced Damage Detectability with Small Vibration Data 5:20pm - 5:40pm AutoML-Optimized Vision Transformers for Multimodal Structural Health Monitoring from Multi-Channel Feature Tensors 5:40pm - 6:00pm Physics-Informed CycleGAN Framework Combining GNN and Transformer for Domain Adaptation |
SS12 - 3: Advances in the application of the inverse Finite Element Method (iFEM) for real-time Deformation Reconstruction, Damage Detection, and Structural Health Monitoring - 3 Robust Vibration Strain-Based Damage Detection under Uncertainty via a Combined iFEM and Statistical Time Series Framework 4:40pm - 5:00pm Research on Structural Large Deformation Reconstruction Algorithm Based on the Inverse Finite Element Method 5:00pm - 5:20pm Experimental Validation of Particle Inverse Method for Shape Sensing of Damaged Composite Structures from Discrete Sensor Measurements 5:20pm - 5:40pm Pipe dynamic monitoring under water hammer by iBEAM2 element of inverse finite element method 5:40pm - 6:00pm A Nonlinear Iterative Inverse Finite Element Approach for Shape Sensing of Beam Structure |
SS21 - 3: Fiber-Optic Sensing for Sustainable and Scalable Structural Health Monitoring - 3 Integrated deformation monitoring of a simply supported beam using distributed fiber-optic sensing and profile laser scanning 4:40pm - 5:00pm Multidirectional Strain Analysis of Prefabricated Prestressed Double-T Slab Using Embedded Long-Gauge FBG Sensors 5:00pm - 5:20pm Automated Installation and connection of fiber optic sensor network on embedded in Composite Structures 5:20pm - 5:40pm Embedding of Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors Using L-WAAM Technology for the Development of a Smart Mold 5:40pm - 6:00pm 3D printed multiple microsensors on multicore fibers for simultaneous pressure and temperature sensing 6:00pm - 6:20pm FBG-Based Optical Sensing for Quench Detection in HTS Magnets for the operational Spherical Tokamak SMART |
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| SS3 - 2: Reliability and Quality Assessment of SHM systems - 2 Pattern Recognition and Heat-Map Visualization for the Assessment of Corrosion in Aluminium Sample exposed to marine environment using the EMI Technique 4:40pm - 5:00pm A Probabilistic Framework for Predicting Damage Detectability in Nonlinear SHM Applications 5:00pm - 5:20pm First damaging experiments on the openLAB research bridge: Extensive open data sets and preliminary insights 5:20pm - 5:40pm A Trust Metric for Stochastic Model-Based Damage Localisation 5:40pm - 6:00pm Optimizing the number of PZT transducers to meet industrial requirements for the SHM of metallic pipes using ultrasonic waves 6:00pm - 6:20pm SHM-informed modelling of stochastic traffic loads and stress ranges in bridge structures |
Wireless: Wireless technologies for SHM Corrosion state assessment of steel in infrastructures during maintenance operations by RFID battery-less corrosion sensors 4:40pm - 5:00pm Comparative Gateway Placement Optimization for LoRaWAN-Based Structural Health Monitoring on Bridges 5:00pm - 5:20pm Long-term monitoring for lifetime assessment of interim storage facilities using passive NFC sensors in concrete 5:20pm - 5:40pm Printed E-Tattoo Wireless Sensor for Smart Monitoring of Composite Structures 5:40pm - 6:00pm Wireless Capacitive Strain Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring of Non-metallic Pipes 6:00pm - 6:20pm Design and Implementation of a Multi-Channel Ultra-Low-Power IoT-Based Strain Monitoring System with Edge Computing and Precise Time Synchronization |
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| 6:30pm - 9:30pm |
Welcome Reception Location: Caravelle |
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