Four-Node Generalized Conforming Membrane Elements with Drilling DOFs Using Quadrilateral Area Coordinate Methods

Table 1

List of benchmark problems.

Number	Benchmark problems (figure number)		Results
1	Patch test	(Figure 6)
2	Cook’s skew beam	(Figure 7)	Table 3
3	Beam divided by five quadrilateral elements	(Figure 8)	Table 4
4	Beam divided by four quadrilateral elements	(Figure 9)	Table 5
5	MacNeal’s thin beam	(Figure 10)	Table 6
6	Thin curving beam	(Figure 11)	Table 7
7	Beam divided by two elements with distortion parameter	(Figure 12)	Table 8