YEONG-BIN YANG, PHD, is Honorary Dean of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University in China, Feng Tay Chair Professor of National Yunlin University of Science and Technology (YunTech), and Professor Emeritus of National Taiwan University (NTU) in Taiwan. He is a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Austrian Academy of Sciences, and EU Academy of Sciences. Also, he is an Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics, President of the Asian-Pacific Association of Computational Mechanics (APACM), and Chairman of the East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction (EASEC).

JUDY P. YANG, PHD, is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Civil Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.

BIN ZHANG is a PhD student in the School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University in China.

YUNTIAN WU, PHD, is a Professor in the School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, China.