“…A nice review about the alleviation of the volumetric locking in the MLS meshfree methods can be found in Belytschko et al (2004). Earlier results with application of meshless methods to shallow shell problems (Krysl and Belytschko, 1996;Li et al, 2000Li et al, , 2008Noguchi et al, 2000;Sladek et al, 2007Sladek et al, , 2008Jarak et al, 2007;Soric and Jarak, 2010;Sladek et al, 2013a,b) showed excellent results for conventional elastic materials. In mesh-based methods, the mesh describes the geometry of the surface, and the elements provide local parametrical spaces where the shape functions and the local parameterizations of the surface can be defined.…”