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¹Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
²Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Woodstock Rd, Oxford OX2 6GG, United Kingdom
³School of Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, United Kingdom
⁴Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, 138634, Singapore
⁵School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore
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