Research Article

Discontinuous Deformation Analysis Enriched by the Bonding Block Model

Table 4

The stresses computed by the BBM and the FEM are compared with the analytical solutions at the points , , , , and .

Stress/MPa Theory BBM Accuracy FEM Accuracy

3.0 2.949130 98.304% 3.03450 98.850%
0.0 ā€” ā€”
0.993759 0.999961 99.376% 1.000023 99.370%
0.998758 0.999944 99.881% 0.999960 99.880%
1.005150 0.989241 98.417% 0.985517 98.047%