“…This approach was used in [17] for curved structures, and it was extended for plan elasticity [11,[18][19][20][21]. A summary of this early work was presented in [22,23], with three-dimensional elasticity problems [24][25][26], plate bending [9,[27][28][29][30], and shell structures [31][32][33][34]. Other studies presented the treatment of non-linear problems [31,[35][36], composite materials [37], functionally graded plates [29,38], and fracture mechanics [39].…”