Research Article
A Novel Shape-Free Plane Quadratic Polygonal Hybrid Stress-Function Element
Table 4
Results at selected locations for MacNeal’s thin beam problem (Figure
7).
| | | Load | Load (×10−02) | | Numerical results | Normalized results | Numerical results | Normalized results |
| | Mesh 1 | −0.1060 | 0.9806 | −0.5400 | 1.0000 | | Mesh 2 | −0.1060 | 0.9806 | −0.5400 | 1.0000 | | Mesh 3 | −0.1060 | 0.9806 | −0.5400 | 1.0000 | | Mesh 4 | −0.1060 | 0.9806 | −0.5400 | 1.0000 | | Mesh 5 | −0.1060 | 0.9806 | −0.5400 | 1.0000 | | Mesh 6 | −0.1064 | 0.9843 | −0.5400 | 1.0000 |
| | [45] | −0.1081 | −0.5400 |
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