1. Visiting Research Fellow, Dept. of Civil Engineering, GeoEngineering Center at Queen’s-RMC, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, ON, Canada K7K 7B4; Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Univ. of Guilan, Rasht, Guilan 41996-13776, Iran. ORCID: .
2. Professor and Research Director, Dept. of Civil Engineering, GeoEngineering Centre at Queen’s-RMC, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, ON, Canada K7K 7B4 (corresponding author). ORCID: .