1. Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Concordia Univ., Montréal, QC, Canada H3G 1M8; presently, on leave, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo Univ., Giza 12613, Egypt.
2. Professor, Dept. of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Concordia Univ., Montréal, QC, Canada H3G 1M8 (corresponding author).
3. Formerly, Ph.D. Graduate, Dept. of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Concordia Univ., Montréal, QC, Canada H3G 1M8.