Research Article

Discontinuous Deformation Analysis Enriched by the Bonding Block Model

Table 5

The displacements and computed by the BBM and the FEM are compared at the points , , , , and .

Displ./m FEM BBM Relative errorā€ 

0.0 ā€”
1.266527%
0.159684%
0.0 ā€”
0.070121%
ā€”
0.096443%
0.067546%
0.0 ā€”
0.089596%

The relative error between the BBM result and the FEM solution is determined by , .