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

Table 2

The midpoint deflection 𝛿(×𝐹𝐿³/𝐸𝐼) for varying scaling factor (61 nodes are used).

𝐷max	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0
Cubic basis	0.0564	0.0634	0.2500	0.2502	0.2817	0.2605	0.3544
Quadratic basis	0.2499	0.2501	0.2500	0.2502	0.3382	0.2601	0.2165