1. Assistant Lecturer, Dept. of Building and Constructions Technology, Engineering Technical College, Northern Technical Univ., Mosul 41002, Iraq; Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208. ORCID: .
2. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Beirut Arab Univ., Tripoli 1301, Lebanon.
3. Assistant Lecturer, Dept. of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Univ. of Basrah, Basrah 61004, Iraq; Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208.
4. Professor and Chair, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208.
5. Associate Dean, International Programs, College of Engineering and Computing, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 (corresponding author).