“…Up to the present, considerable research efforts have been made for the dynamic stability problems under the non-conservative forces by using various approaches such as the Galerkin method (Leipholz, 1980;Elishakoff and Hollkamp, 1987;Levincon, 1966;Rao and Rao, 1975), the transfer matrix approach (Lee and Yang, 1994;Irie et al, 1980;Takahashi, 1999;Takahashi and Yoshioka, 1996), the integral equation formulation (Elfelsoufi and Azrar, 2005;2006), the finite difference method (Rao and Rao, 1990a;1990b;1988), the assumed mode method (Lee, 1996a;1996b;1995a;1995b), and many other forms of discretization methods (Lee et al, 1992;De Rosa and Franciosi, 1990). Amongst the analytical or numerical methods available for the dynamic stability problems, the finite element method seems to be undoubtedly the most versatile, accordingly a large amount of works (Lee et al, 2007;Ryu et al, 1998;Kim and Choo, 1998;Saje and Jelenic, 1994;Del Giudice et al, 1992) were devoted to the technical improvement of the finite elements.…”