About the author  ⁄ Tom Glardon, P.E.

Tom Glardon, P.E., is an instructor at The Civil Engineer School of the Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio. He can be reached at thomas.glardon@afit.edu.

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