“…Although a number of computer programs such as Abaqus, OpenSees, Ansys, and MSC.Marc are readily available for the structural analysis of thin-walled nanostructural members, approaches to obtain the exact solutions [ 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 ] in closed form are helpful in many situations. The matrix stiffness method (MSM) has been found to be a suitable and systematic method for such purposes [ 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 ]. The basic idea of the matrix stiffness method is to establish the equilibrium relationship between the element-end displacements and the element-end forces of a beam-column element (where u i , d i , and q i are element-end axial displacement, translational displacement, and rotation angle, respectively; F i , V i , and M i are element-end axial load, shear force, and bending moment, respectively, as shown in Figure 1 ) as where [ K e ] is the element stiffness matrix for flexural-axial problems.…”