Static and Vibrational Analysis of Partially Composite Beams Using the Weak-Form Quadrature Element Method

Table 5

Relative percentage error of maximum slip of simply supported beam.

		𝛼𝐿
		1	5	10	20	30	40
QEM	1Q5.17DOF	0.0000	0.1351	1.0759	2.7046	2.9966	2.8370
	1Q8.26DOF	0.0000	0.0000	0.0027	0.1039	0.3600	0.6232
	1Q12.38DOF	0.0000	0.0000	0.0000	0.0001	0.0031	0.0170
FEM	4F8.20DOF	0.0155	4.0115	19.0258	66.2752	116.7706	158.9260
	8F8.36DOF	0.0052	1.0611	5.2659	21.5323	45.6728	74.2945
	4F10.28DOF	0.0061	0.1035	0.4081	1.1653	1.6049	1.7651
	8F10.52DOF	0.0004	0.0071	0.0366	0.1810	0.3758	0.5519
	2F16.28DOF	0.0000	0.0011	0.0277	0.2843	0.6536	0.9370
	4F16.52DOF	0.0000	0.0000	0.0004	0.0122	0.0572	0.1338