“…This procedure was validated with exact solution obtained by Lima e Silva, Duarte and Guimarães (1998). Literature values of α and λ for PVC (Crawford, 1998), for PMMA (Miller and Kotlar, 1991) and for PE (Guimarães, Philippi and Thery, 1995) were used. The difference between the two models is analyzed and the moment the difference begins to increase is determined.…”