1. Graduate Student, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering Dept., Concordia Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada H3G 1M8.
2. Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering Dept., Concordia Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada H3G 1M8 (corresponding author).
3. Professor, Structural Engineering Dept., Faculty of Engineering, Tanta Univ., Tanta, Egypt.