I've since refined my code to calculate lambda and mu
nodes = [0,0;1,.5;2,1;3,1.5;4,1;5,.5;6,0;5,0;4,0;3,0;2,0;1,0]; nodes = nodes'; linksN = [1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 11 12 1 12 11 11 10 10 10 9 9 8]; linksF = [2 3 4 5 6 7 7 8 9 10 11 12 2 2 3 3 4 5 5 6 6]; connect = [linksN; linksF];
k = cell(21,1);
for i = 1:length(linksF)
v = connect(:,i);
C = nodes(:,v(2))-nodes(:,v(1));
lmem = sqrt(sum((nodes(:,v(2))-nodes(:,v(1))).^2));
T = C/lmem;
c2 = (T(1)^2)/lmem;
cs = (T(1)*T(2))/lmem;
s2 = (T(2)^2)/lmem;
k{i} = [c2 cs -c2 -cs;cs s2 -cs -s2;-c2 -cs c2 cs;-cs -s2 cs s2];
end
Im still unsure as to how to combine these matrices into the global structural matrix
