1. Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo Univ., Cairo, Giza, Egypt 12613; Postdoctoral fellow, Dept. of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Concordia Univ., Montréal, QC, Canada H3G 1M8; formerly, Ph.D. Candidate, McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4L7 (corresponding author).
2. Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Civil Engineering, McMaster Univ., 1280 Main St. West, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4L7; presently, on leave, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams Univ., Cairo, Egypt 11566.
3. Martini, Mascarin, and George Chair in Masonry Design, Director, Applied Dynamics Laboratory, Dept. of Civil Engineering, McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4L7.