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

Table 9

Relative percentage error of maximum deflection of two-span beam.

		𝛼𝐿
		1	5	10	20	30	40
QEM	4Q3.32DOF	2.2144	3.7193	3.7997	2.9423	2.5447	2.3587
	4Q5.56DOF	0.0008	0.0120	0.0361	0.0405	0.0359	0.0282
	4Q8.92DOF	0.0000	0.0000	0.0000	0.0009	0.0014	0.0013
FEM	8F8.36DOF	0.0028	1.0639	3.7823	7.4336	9.5816	10.9917
	16F8.68DOF	0.0010	0.2613	0.8665	1.5001	1.8529	2.0688
	8F10.52DOF	0.0025	0.0045	0.0805	0.0712	0.0509	0.0358
	16F10.100DOF	0.0004	0.0039	0.0000	0.0009	0.0006	0.0012
	4F16.52DOF	0.0000	0.0028	0.0059	0.0084	0.0020	0.0012
	8F16.100DOF	0.0000	0.0001	0.0007	0.0015	0.0014	0.0009