1. Professor, Key Laboratory of Coastal Disaster and Defence, Ministry of Education, Hohai Univ., Nanjing, Jiangsu 210098, China; Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 1A4 (corresponding author).
2. Professor, Institutes of Geotechnical Engineering, Hohai Univ., Nanjing, Jiangsu 210098, China.
3. Institute of Geotechnical Engineering, Hohai Univ., Nanjing, Jiangsu 210098, China.
4. Professor, Bharti School of Engineering, Laurentian Univ., Sudbury, ON, Canada P3E 2C6.