NURBS-Based Isogeometric Analysis of Beams and Plates Using High Order Shear Deformation Theory

Table 1

Normalized tip displacements for extreme thickness cantilever beams under uniform pressure modeled with 10 NURBS elements.

Order of basis functions	Very thick beam; (aspect ratio = 4.0)	Very thin beam; (aspect ratio = 100000)
Quadratic	0.9954	0.6599
Cubic	0.9976	0.8899
Quartic	0.9981	0.9980