Research Article

A Refined Higher-Order Hybrid Stress Quadrilateral Element for Free Vibration and Buckling Analyses of Reissner-Mindlin Plates

Table 19

The factor of uniaxial buckling loads along the -axis of rectangular plates (SSSS) with various length-to-width ratios and various thickness-to-width ratios.

S8RES-DSG3 [47]Mesh-free [48]QH8-Rpb-2 Ritz [46]

0.50.056.03765.98736.04056.08226.0372
0.15.47795.30645.31165.50715.4777
0.21.95253.7203.71573.97543.9963

10.053.94413.94123.92933.95283.9444
0.13.78613.74023.72703.78553.7865
0.22.04443.12633.14713.24273.2637

1.50.054.25764.28524.21164.27454.2570
0.14.02553.98443.89824.03324.0250
0.22.01323.14613.10323.29663.3048

20.053.94403.98113.86573.95283.9444
0.13.78603.77113.67973.78553.7865
0.21.94863.14153.07833.24273.2637

2.50.054.06734.16913.96004.07954.0645
0.13.87003.89243.73113.87373.8683
0.21.86973.12343.03063.23383.2421