1. Former Ph.D. student, Project Engineer, Osmos Canada, 1001 Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Suite 800-B, Montreal, PQ, Canada, H3A 3C8.
2. Post-doctoral Fellow, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Univ. of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, PQ, Canada, J1K 2R1; Lecturer, Assiut Univ., Assiut, Egypt.
3. Professor of Civil Engineering, Canada Research Chair in Advanced Composite Materials for Civil Structures, NSERC Research Chair in Innovative FRP Reinforcement for Concrete Infrastructures, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Univ. of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, PQ, Canada, J1K 2R1 (corresponding author).