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

Table 2

, the maximum rotation of the quarter arc beam in the y-direction.

Software	Element type	No. of elements
		2	3	5	8	10
MIDAS	S2	0.00922	0.00870	0.00844	0.00838	0.00833
ANSYS	C3	0.00830	0.00830	0.00830	0.00830	0.00830
The paper	C2	0.00847	0.00833	0.00831	0.00831	0.00831