1. Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Civil Engineering, McMaster Univ., Hamilton ON, Canada L8S 4L7 (corresponding author).
2. Martini, Mascarin, and George Chair in Masonry Design, Dept. of Civil Engineering, McMaster Univ., Hamilton ON, Canada L8S 4L7.
3. Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Civil Engineering, McMaster Univ., Hamilton ON, Canada L8S 4L7.