“…Jirousek's method has been applied to the biharmonic equation [2,3], plane elasticity [40], and Kirchhoff plates [34,40,51]. Later the approach was further extended to thin shells [39], moderately thick Reissner-Mindlin plates [35,36,51], thick plates [52], general 3-D solid mechanics [53], axisymmetric solid mechanics [42,43], Poisson equation [54], and transient heat conduction analysis [45].…”