The Application of Mesh-Free Method in the Numerical Simulation of Beams with the Size Effect

Table 1

The midpoint deflection 𝛿(×𝐹𝐿³/𝐸𝐼) for different numbers of nodes (𝐷_max is fixed as 3.0).

Node number	5	9	13	17	21	25	29	33	61
𝛿(×𝐹𝐿^3/𝐸𝐼)	0.2716	0.2545	0.2516	0.2508	0.2505	0.2503	0.2502	0.2501	0.2500