Research Article

Accurate Element of Compressive Bar considering the Effect of Displacement

Table 2

Buckling load of bar with different number of elements (N).

Interpolation shape function elementAnalytical trial function

Number of elements12345820Single element

Theory value9422.3ā€”

Buckling load140009664.19480.29441.79430.59422.49422.49422.34

Relative error (%)48.582.56