1. Civil Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Tikrit University, Salah-Aldeen Governorate, Tikrit, Iraq
2. Municipalities of Kirkuk, Ministry of Construction, Housing and Municipalities, Kirkuk Governorate, Azadi, Iraq
3. Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, PO Box 1403, Dhahran-31261, Saudi Arabia (Corresponding author), e-mail: shamsad@kfupm.edu.sa, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7939-7319