“…The proposed numerical approach, refer to Fuschi et al [22] and Pisano and Fuschi [42] for its kinematic version, can be viewed as an extension, in the context of orthotropic materials, of a method known in the relevant literature as Linear Matching Method (LMM), see e.g. Ponter and Carter [43]; Ponter et al [44]; Chen et al [14]; Barrera et al [6].…”