1. Professor and Drummond Chair, Dept. of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487; formerly, Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO 80523-1372 (corresponding author).
2. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, South Dakota State Univ., Brookings, SD 57006; formerly, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO 80523-137.
3. International Director of Building Systems, Simpson Strong Tie Company, Pleasanton, CA.
4. Researcher, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention/E-Defense, Miki City, Japan.
5. Associate Professor, Dept. of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu Univ., Nagano, Japan.