1. Assitant Professor, School of Science, North Univ. of China, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030051, China; formerly, Visiting Student, GeoEngineering Centre at Queen’s—Royal Military College of Canada, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Queen’s Univ., Kingston, ON, Canada K7L 3N6. ORCID: .
2. Professor and Canada Research Chair in Infrastructure Engineering, GeoEngineering Centre at Queen’s—Royal Military College of Canada, Queen’s Univ., Kingston, ON, Canada K7L 3N6.
3. Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Civil Engineering and GeoEngineering Centre at Queen’s—Royal Military College of Canada, Queen’s Univ., Kingston, ON, Canada K7L 3N6 (corresponding author).