Bending of Nonconforming Thin Plates Based on the Mixed-Order Manifold Method with Background Cells for Integration

Figure 9

Meshes with different element sizes of a clamped circular plate divided for the proposed NMM and the traditional NMM; from left to right: 0.5 × 0.5, 0.3 × 0.3, 0.25 × 0.25, 0.2 × 0.2, and 0.15 × 0.15.