Table 2.

Comparative chart for material analysis methods.

Raleigh-Ritz Method	Finite Element Method
The structure is treated as a single entity; therefore, it consists of a single element [29,30,31,35].	The structure consists of multiple elements connected by nodes [6,44,45,46,47,48,49,50].
The variables to be optimized are the coefficients A, B, C, etc., of the equations describing the problem [29,32,35,36,37,38].	Offsets and rotations are the variables to be optimized [5,6,44,46,47,51].
Less intuitive. You need to specify boundary conditions and restrictions regarding the amplitude of sine waves [29,39,40,41,42,43].	More intuitive, as the boundary conditions and restrictions refer to displacements and rotations [5,6,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56].