Finite element for CLT floors with floating screed

Finite element for cross-laminated timber floors with floating screed

Accompaning MATLAB script for the Finite Element described in the paper

"A finite element for static and dynamic analyses of cross-laminated timber floors"

by Thomas Furtmüller and Christoph Adam

published in Engineering Structures 293 (2023) 116669

Run the script "test.m" to get the elemental mass, stiffness, damping matrices and load vector for a sample finite element.

For the global matrix assembly several functions are provided in the Fiel Exchange, for instance as described in:

Cuvelier, François, Caroline Japhet, and Gilles Scarella. "An efficient way to perform the assembly of finite element matrices in Matlab and Octave." arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.3122 (2013).