1. Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Univ. de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada J1K 2R1.
2. Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Univ. de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada J1K 2R1 (corresponding author).
3. Lecturer, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut Univ., Assiut, Egypt; Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Univ. de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada J1K 2R1.
4. Researcher, Institute de Recherche d’Hydro-Quebec (IREQ), Varennes, QC, Canada J3X 1S1.