1. Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Construction Engineering, Univ. of Quebec, École de Technologie Supérieure, Montreal, QC, Canada H3C 1K3.
2. Professor of Construction Engineering, Univ. of Quebec, École de Technologie Supérieure, 1100 Notre-Dame St. West, Montreal, QC, Canada H3C 1K3 (corresponding author).
3. Professor of Structural Engineering, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Sherbrooke Univ., Quebec, Canada.