Research Article

A Conforming Triangular Plane Element with Rotational Degrees of Freedom

Table 2

Deflections (m) of the central point in different mesh scheme.

ElementMesh
2 × 24 × 48 × 816 × 1632 × 3264 × 64

CST11.9918.2822.0223.41//
GT920.0822.7123.6123.8723.9423.96
GT9M20.3622.8023.6323.8823.9423.96
TR319.6622.4623.4723.8123.9223.95