1. Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Univ. of Sherbrooke and Univ. of Quebec, École de Technologie Supérieure, 1100 Notre-Dame West, Montreal, QC, Canada H3C 1K3.
2. Professor of Construction Engineering, Univ. of Quebec, École de Technologie Supérieure, 1100 Notre-Dame West, Montreal, QC, Canada H3C 1K3.
3. Professor of Civil Engineering and NSERC Research Chair in FRP Reinforcement for Concrete Infrastructures and Tier-1 Canada Research Chair in Advanced Composite Materials for Civil Structures in the Dept. of Civil Engineering, Univ. of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada; and 2500 Université Blvd., Sherbrooke, QC, Canada J1K 2R1 (corresponding author).