1. Professor, “Distinguished Professor of Tongji University,” Dept. of Geotechnical Engineering and Key Laboratory of Geotechnical and Underground Engineering of Ministry of Education, Tongji Univ., Shanghai 200092, China (corresponding author).
2. Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Université Laval, Ste-Foy, Québec, Canada, G1K 7P4.
3. Professor, Dept. of Geotechnical Engineering, Tongji Univ., Shanghai 200092, China.
4. Professor, School of Civil Engineering, Univ. of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, U.K.