**Author details**

Muhammad Umar1 and Hamidi Abdul Aziz2\*

\*Address all correspondence to: cehamidi@usm.eng.my

1 School of Civil, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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2 School of Civil Engineering, University Sains Malaysia, Engineering Campus, Nibong Te‐ bal, Penang, Malaysia
