1. Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, City College of New York/CUNY, New York, NY 10031 (corresponding author).
2. Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice Univ., Houston, TX 77005.
3. The Fazlur R. Khan Endowed Chair Professor, Structural Engineering and Architecture, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, PA 18015.
4. Research Structural Engineer, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899.
5. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, PA 18015.
6. Professor, George and Dawn L. Coleman Centennial Fellow in Engineering, Dept. of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712-1068.
7. Distinguished Professor, Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO 80523.
8. Structural Engineer, StroNGER S.r.l., Tecnopolo Tiburtino, 00131 Rome, Italy.
9. Principal, Shah Associates, 10 Alderwood Ln., Syosset, NY 11791.
10. Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waseda Univ., 3-4-1 Okubo Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan.
11. Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.
12. Professor, School of Civil Engineering, Univ. of Coruna, La Coruna 15071, Spain.
13. Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Rhode Island Univ., Kingston, RI 02881.E-mail: