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

Table 6

Relative percentage error of maximum slip of cantilever beam.

		𝛼𝐿
		1	5	10	20	30	40
QEM	1Q5.17DOF	0.0117	1.9410	4.1008	1.6481	1.1657	3.7099
	1Q8.26DOF	0.0000	0.0074	0.0553	2.3105	5.3586	6.3459
	1Q12.38DOF	0.0000	0.0000	0.0005	0.0580	0.2907	0.2596
FEM	4F8.20DOF	0.0200	4.0367	10.7055	50.6004	81.4855	101.8157
	8F8.36DOF	0.0357	1.1951	3.3342	11.7254	24.8397	45.7010
	4F10.28DOF	0.0174	0.4822	3.9348	10.4627	12.1420	11.5777
	8F10.52DOF	0.0138	0.0445	0.2953	0.1168	6.3507	9.4574
	2F16.28DOF	0.0003	0.1441	0.2973	4.9769	7.6101	8.1488
	4F16.52DOF	0.0000	0.0025	0.0713	0.7681	1.1464	3.2393