MADJID KARIMIRAD, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Marine and Coastal Engineering in the School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen's University Belfast (QUB), United Kingdom (UK). CONSTANTINE MICHAILIDES, PhD, is a Lecturer of Offshore Structures/Engineering in the Civil Engineering and Geomatics Department at Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus. ALI NEMATBAKHSH, PhD, is an Assistant Project Scientist in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Riverside, USA.