1. Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, American Univ. of Sharjah, PO Box 26666, Sharjah (corresponding author). ORCID: .
2. Formerly, Graduate Student, Dept. of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, American Univ. of Sharjah, PO Box 26666, Sharjah; presently, Ph.D. Student, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1.,
3. Formerly, Graduate Student, Dept. of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, American Univ. of Sharjah, PO Box 26666, Sharjah; presently, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Buildings, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Concordia Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada H3G 1M8.
4. Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, American Univ. of Sharjah, PO Box 26666, Sharjah. ORCID: .