“…Comparing with the FEM (Fu et al, 2020; Li and Yu, 2018; Li et al, 2017a, 2018a, 2018b, 2018d, 2019a, 2020; Yu et al, 2018), the analytical formulations of the stiffness matrix along the thickness direction can be given out. Owing to these unique characteristics of the semi-analytical scheme and only discretization of the boundary, the SBFEM has been adopted in many engineering fields, such as modelling both the unbounded and bounded domains (Bazyar and Song, 2008; Birk et al, 2012; Chen et al, 2014; Song, 2009), voided materials (Sladek et al, 2015, 2016), parametrization (Arioli et al, 2019), weak discontinuities (Natarajan et al, 2020), the interaction of acoustic-structures (Li et al, 2018c; Liu et al, 2019b), uniform beams (Li et al, 2017b), cylindrical shells (Li et al, 2019b), and so on. The general solution of the SBFEM governing equation for plates is in the analytical form of a matrix exponent corresponding to the transverse coordinate.…”