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

Table 2

Convergence of formulation in evaluating tip displacements of isotropic beam.

	nELE
		5	6	7	8	9	10
	4	0.32889	0.32890	0.32891	0.32891	0.32891	0.32891
	6	0.43451	0.43453	0.43454	0.43454	0.43454	0.43454
	8	0.50471	0.50475	0.50477	0.50478	0.50478	0.50478
	10	0.55485	0.55491	0.55492	0.55494	0.55495	0.55495
	4	0.67000	0.67002	0.67004	0.67004	0.67004	0.67004
	6	0.74462	0.74467	0.74469	0.74470	0.74470	0.74470
	8	0.78505	0.78512	0.78515	0.78516	0.78517	0.78517
	10	0.81068	0.81077	0.81082	0.81084	0.81085	0.81085

Note: nELE is the number of elements.