“…The SBFEM is in its core nature a semi-analytical method which was first proposed by Wolf and Song [4,6] for modeling wave propagation in unbounded domains. However, over the last two decades, the SBFEM has been extended to various types of analyses including wave propagation in bounded domains [7], fracture mechanics [8,9,10], acoustics [11,12], contact mechanics [13,14], seepage [15], elasto-plasticity [16], damage analysis [17], adaptive analysis [18,19], among many others [20,21,22,23]. Due to its versatility and applicability to a wide class of problems, the SBFEM can be seen as a general numerical method to solve PDEs.…”