Dr. Wai-Fah Chen was Professor and Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Hawaii from 1999 to 2006. The author or co-author of 20 books, his primary areas of research are constitutive modeling of engineering materials, soil and concrete plasticity, structural connections, and structural stability. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and an Honorary member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Dr. Norimitsu Kishi is Professor, Structural Engineering Chair, and Director of the Structural Mechanics Laboratory in the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture at the Muroran Institute of Technology. Dr. Masato Komuro is Assistant Professor at the Muroran Institute of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture.