1. Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Civil Engineering, McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4L7; presently, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams Univ., Cairo, Egypt. ORCID: .
2. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4L7 (corresponding author).
3. Martini Mascarin and George Chair in Masonry Design, Dept. of Civil Engineering, McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4L7.
4. Professor and Chair, Dept. of Civil Engineering, McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4L7.