1. Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Civil Engineering Faculty of Engineering, Sherbrooke Univ., Sherbrooke, QC, Canada J1K 2R1 (corresponding author).
2. Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Civil Engineering Faculty of Engineering, Sherbrooke Univ., Sherbrooke, QC, Canada J1K 2R1; Lecturer, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut Univ., Assiut 71515, Egypt.
3. Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Sherbrooke Univ., Sherbrooke, QC, Canada J1K 2R1.