1. Ph.D. Student of Civil Engineering, Institute for Research in Construction, National Research Council of Canada, 1200 Montreal Rd., Bldg. M-20, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0R6 (corresponding author).
2. Ph.D. Student, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carleton Univ., Ottawa, ON, Canada.
3. Ph.D. Student, Dept. of Structural Engineering, Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
4. Graduate Research Assistant, CMI at the Univ. of Tehran, P.O. Box 11365-4563, Tehran, Iran.
5. Associate Professor, Director of Construction Materials Testing Laboratory, Univ. of Tehran, P.O. Box 11365-4563, Tehran, Iran.