“…The semi-analytical finite strip method has been proposed by Cheung [1,2] for several decades, and there have been a great amount of developments in the method itself and in its application [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]. However, this technique is fraught with limitation of only handling simple end boundary conditions of structures (i.e., both ends simply supported, both ends clamped, one end simply supported and the other end clamped, both ends free, or one end clamped and the other end free).…”