1. Associate Professor, Civil Engineering, Alabama A&M Univ., Normal, AL 35752; Professor of Civil Engineering, Mansoura City Univ., Mansoura 35516, Egypt.
2. Graduate Research Assistant, Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering Dept., North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC 27695; Assistant Lecturer, College of Engineering, Mansoura Univ., Mansoura City 35516, Egypt (corresponding author). ORCID: .