“…Hughes et al (2005) and Cottrell et al (2009) firstly introduced the concept of IGA by using the spline basis functions [such as non-uniform rational B-splines (NURBSs)] constructing the exact geometric models as interpolation functions in CAE analysis. Up to now, this approach has also gained widespread reception from the scientific community and many applications have been verified, for example, structural optimization (Cho and Ha, 2009;Qian, 2010;Ding et al, 2016;Ding et al, 2018c;Lian et al, 2017;Lian et al, 2016;Hao et al, 2018a;Hao et al, 2019;Hao et al, 2018b), plate and composite structures (Thai et al, 2014;Yu et al, 2018;Thai et al, 2015;Nguyen-Xuan et al, 2014;Chang et al, 2016;Yin et al, 2015;Thanh et al, 2019b;Phung-Van et al, 2019;Thanh et al, 2019a;Thanh et al, 2018;Phung-Van et al, 2018;Thai et al, 2018b;Thai et al, 2018a;Tran et al, 2017;Thai et al, 2016), isogeometric boundary methods (Simpson et al, 2013;Simpson et al, 2012;Peng et al, 2017;Scott et al, 2013), stochastic analysis (Ding et al, 2019a;Ding et al, 2018b;Ding et al, 2019b;Ding et al, 2019c), other splines based methods (Atroshchenko et al, 2018;Nguyen-Thanh et al, 2011;Gu et al, 2018a;Gu et al, 2018b), and especially the severa...…”