“…Thus, the variation of minor axis moment of inertia and cross-sectional area in the local coordinate are described as follows: The non-uniformity parameter (α) can change from zero (prismatic beam) to a range of [-2 to -0.1] for non-uniform beams. Exponential variation of geometrical and/or material properties is regarded as one of the most special states of members that few numerical methods such as differential transformation method, generalized differential quadrature, method finite element method, and power series approach can solve its governing differential equation (Mohanty et al, 2012;Li et al, 2013Li et al, , 2018Ebrahimi and Mokhtari, 2015;Wang et al, 2016;Khaniki and Rajasekaran, 2018;Arefi et al, 2018;Soltani and Asgarian, 2019). Regarding the power series method for solving the linear differential equation, all variable coefficients should be represented in a polynomial form.…”