“…The SBFEM is a novel semi-analytical technique and has been developed to solve soil-structure interaction problems, which was proposed [17] and systematically described by Wolf and Song [18]. In recent years, SBFEM has been extended to different fields of physics, such as elastomechanics, dynamics, geomechanics, diffusion, dam-foundation interaction, fracture mechanics, seepage, acoustical, potential flow and electromagnetic field, nonlinear problems, and so on [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]. Its versatility, accuracy and efficiency outweigh the FEM and BEM for certain problems.…”