Research Article

Geometric Nonlinear Meshless Analysis of Ribbed Rectangular Plates Based on the FSDT and the Moving Least-Squares Approximation

Table 1

Central deflection of the rectangular plate with one rib under different loads.

Load (MPa) Koko and Olson [10] (mm)Present results (mm)Relative errors

0.25.5265.316543.8%
0.37.1726.92533.4%
0.48.6318.472431.8%
0.59.8689.829170.4%
0.611.05311.04060.1%
0.711.97412.1373āˆ’1.4%
0.812.96113.1409āˆ’1.4%