1. Project Officer, Project Management Branch, Construction Dept., Civil Engineering Division, Israel Air Force; formerly, Graduate Student, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel.
2. Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel; presently, Visiting Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, 1415 Engineering Dr., Madison, WI 53706 (corresponding author).