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Example 3.11: Static analysis of xed–xed thin beam
In order to examine the computational efciency of the present method, a
xed–xed thin beam subject to uniformly distributed load is considered,
as shown in Figure3.32(a). The parameters of this beam are given as E =
1.2 × 10
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, Poisson ratio
length L = 10, depth D = 0.1, width
t 1.0,
and uniform force f(x) = 1.0. As well known, there is a shear locking phe-
nomenon in the analysis of thin beam using the thick beam theory.
Several studies have been conducted to get rid of shear locking phenomena
such as adding transverse shear strain as an ...