RBF-Based Meshless Method for Large Deflection of Elastic Thin Rectangular Plates with Boundary Conditions Involving Free Edges

Table 5

Central and free edge deflections for CCCF plate subjected to a central concentrated load .

FEM	RBF	Diff.%	FEM	RBF	Diff.%
2	0.145	0.144	0.759	0.059	0.059	0.421
4	0.288	0.286	0.694	0.119	0.119	0.268
6	0.425	0.429	0.941	0.181	0.179	1.137
8	0.557	0.570	2.334	0.246	0.241	2.101
10	0.683	0.701	2.635	0.314	0.304	3.070
12	0.802	0.831	3.616	0.385	0.369	3.989
14	0.915	0.946	3.331	0.459	0.439	4.372
16	1.023	1.057	3.357	0.538	0.515	4.201