Research Article

A Corotational Formulation for Large Displacement Analysis of Functionally Graded Sandwich Beam and Frame Structures

Table 1

Comparison of normalized tip deflections, , of isotropic beam under transverse tip load.

Mattiasson [20]Nanakorn and Vu [21]Nguyen et al. [15]Present

10.301720.299460.302470.30172
20.493460.487480.495370.49349
30.603250.595340.605840.60331
40.669960.661260.672910.67004
50.713790.704790.716940.71390
60.744570.735500.747830.74470
70.767370.758310.770690.76753
80.784980.775970.788340.78517
90.799060.790110.802430.79926
100.810610.801730.813310.81085