1. Professor of Civil Engineering and NSERC Research Chair in FRP Reinforcement for Concrete Infrastructure and Tier-1 Canada Research Chair in Advanced Composite Materials for Civil Structures, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Univ. of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada J1K 2R1 (corresponding author).
2. MITACS Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Univ. of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada J1K 2R1; Assistant Professor, Assiut Univ, Assiut 71515, Egypt.
3. Research Associate, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Univ. of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada J1K 2R1.