1. Senior Geotechnical Engineer, NSCC International Ltd., P.O. Box 856, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; formerly, Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Queen’s Univ., Ellis Hall, 58 Univ. Avenue, Kingston, ON, Canada.
2. Professor and Canada Research Chair in Infrastructure Engineering, GeoEngineering Centre at Queen’s - RMC, Queen’s Univ., Ellis Hall, 58 Univ. Avenue, Kingston, ON, Canada (corresponding author).