Research Article
Application of Base Force Element Method on Complementary Energy Principle to Rock Mechanics Problems
Table 11
Stress
at center of the element at lower right of pillar.
| Meshes | BFEM (kPa) | Q4 model (kPa) | Q4R model (kPa) |
| 20 × 40 | 152.442 | 172.480 | 153.366 | 10 × 40 | 153.439 | 167.708 | 154.637 | 8 × 40 | 151.262 | 163.966 | 152.612 | 6 × 40 | 146.664 | 157.624 | 148.288 |
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