Research Article

A Novel Shape-Free Plane Quadratic Polygonal Hybrid Stress-Function Element

Table 5

Results at selected locations for Cook’s skew beam problem (Figure 8).

Mesh

2 × 223.790.2473−0.1761
4 × 423.940.2406−0.1946
6 × 623.950.2386−0.2018
8 × 823.960.2378−0.2033

Reference solutiona23.960.2362−0.2023

Results of the element GT9M8 [46] using 64 × 64 mesh.