Oru-Ntui Nkiri, University of South Carolina Columbia, Columbia, United States, Bidhan Kumar Sahu, University of South Carolina Columbia, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Columbia, SC, United States, Matthew John Czapiga, Tulane University of Louisiana, River-Costal Science and Engineering, New Orleans, United States, Niloufar Soheili, CUNY City College of New York, New York, United States, Haiqing Xu, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, United States, Jani FATHIMA Jamal, University of South Carolina, CIVIL AND ENVIRONMANTAL ENGINEERING, Columbia, United States and Enrica Viparelli, University of South Carolina, Columbia, Columbia, United States