1. Assistant Lecturer, Mansoura Univ., Mansoura, Dakahlia Governorate 35516, Egypt; presently, Engineering Associate, Kansas Dept. of Transportation, Topeka, KS 66603.
2. Roy P. Daniels Professor of Engineering, Dept. of Civil and Env. Engineering, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA 70803 (corresponding author). ORCID: .