“…This theory provides an accurate, efficient and versatile analytical method for vibration analysis and design of rigidflexible structures. The theory is also expected to be extended to other analytical vibrational models such as membranes [72] , plates [73][74][75][76][77][78] , shells [79][80][81] , solids [82] for the vibration and buckling analysis [83,84] by using associated techniques, e.g., [85][86][87] . Besides, the analytical nature of this proposed method facilitates the consideration of uncertainties that may occur during the manufacturing and assembly procedure, such as the uncertainties in rigid bodies (mass, rotatory inertia), the beam sections [88][89][90] (Young's modulus, density, cross section and etc), their connections (relative positions) and more complex engineering problems [91] .…”