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A serendipity type surface-parallel cubic (24-node) isoparametric element for analysis of thick deep imperfect laminated shells is developed. The element is capable of accurately modeling the curved geometry of a laminated shell by taking advantage of general tensorial formulation and using the surface-parallel curvilinear coordinates of non-Euclidean geometry. The present nonlinear finite element...