Improved Strategy of Two-Node Curved Beam Element Based on the Same Beam’s Nodes Information

Table 1

, the maximum displacement of the quarter arc beam in the z-direction.

Software	Element type	No. of elements
		2	3	5	8	10
MIDAS	S2	0.0318	0.0297	0.0286	0.0284	0.0282
ANSYS	C3	0.0280	0.0280	0.0280	0.0280	0.0280
The paper	C2	0.0283	0.0281	0.0280	0.0280	0.0280