1. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics, McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 2K6 (corresponding author).
2. Manager, Steel Structures Engineering Division, Nippon Steel Engineering Co., Ltd., Osaka Center Building, 1-5-1 Osaki, Shinagawa-Ku, Tokyo 141-8604, Japan; formerly, Researcher, E-Defense, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (NIED).
3. Manager, Steel Structures Engineering Division, Nippon Steel Engineering Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan; formerly, Researcher, E-Defense, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (NIED).
4. Professor, Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto Univ., Uji, Gokasho, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan.