Research Article

Bending Moment Calculations for Piles Based on the Finite Element Method

Table 13

Meshes for the analysis.

ItemC3D20R-M3C3D8-M1C3D8-M2C3D8-M3C3D8-M4C3D8-M5

Element number22620954115855226201349714283
Node number999961120818264258241560016488
Grids for pile 4 × 42 4 × 42
CPU-time (s)1451.867.1132.6217.5124.0121.0