1. Professor and Chair, Civil and Urban Engineering Department, New York Univ., Polytechnic School of Engineering, Six Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201 US, (Corresponding author), e-mail: Iskander@NYU.edu
2. Professor and Research Director, GeoEngineering Centre at Queen's-RMC, Department of Civil Engineering, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, ON, K7K 7B4, CA, e-mail: bathurst-r@rmc.ca
3. Research Assistant, Civil and Urban Engineering Department, New York Univ., Polytechnic School of Engineering, Six Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201 US, e-mail: m.omidvar@nyu.edu.