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Acknowledgements The authors acknowledge FCT, I.P., for the financial support through the grant 2024.13040.PRT, UID/00667 project: Unidade de Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Engenharia Mecânica e Industrial, and CERENA UID/04028/2025.

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