What, in your opinion is the value of ritz's method? 1. Some. It is fraught with difficult make it almost impossible to apply to the challenging problems of design of moder aerospace structures
The reaction on the left end is not exact because 1. The order of interpolation is too low, a higher order of interpolation would give the right reaction 2. The distributed load attributed to node one does not ke it into the solution
Concept Question How many quadrature points do you need to integrate exactly the stiffness matrix of a lD finite element with quadratic interpolation for the displacements? gauss