1. Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Univ. of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada J1K 2R1; and Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Assiut Univ., Egypt.
2. NSERC Research Chair Professor and Tier-1 Canada Research Chair in Advanced Composite Materials for Civil Structures, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Univ. of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada J1K 2R1 (corresponding author).