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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

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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

The correct global local node mapping for the quadraticelement mesh in the figure is

Finite element wodel of a beam(Euler-Bernollia- governing eQuations

Numerical integration Consider He 4-D integral =+(s 1 Seek n-point apploxiwisfions G~2M =1 are the weights and

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