“…Zhou et al [ 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 ] used Chebyshev polynomials and static beam functions as admissible functions in conjunction with Rayleigh-Ritz method to study the three-dimensional vibrations of rectangular, skew, elliptical, and circular annular plates, as well as solid and hollow circular cylinders with different boundary conditions. Qu et al [ 44 ] employed a multilevel partitioning hierarchy, viz., multilayered parallelepiped, individual layer and layer segment, which are based on the exact three-dimensional elasticity theory to analyze the free and transverse vibrations of multilayered laminated composite and sandwich beams, plates, and solids with various boundary conditions. The displacement components of each layer segment are approximated as the product of orthogonal polynomials and/or trigonometric functions.…”