1. Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, 206 Ketter Hall, Univ. at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260 (corresponding author).
2. Director, Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research; and, Professor, Dept. of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, Univ. at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260.
3. Assistant Research Fellow, National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering, 200, Sec. 3, Xinhai Rd., Taipei 106, Taiwan.
4. Director, National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering and Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan Univ., 200, Sec. 3, Xinhai Rd., Taipei 106, Taiwan.