MasonMesh

A structured FEM mesh generator for masonry facades with the capability to mesh openings and partition walls.

MasonMesh is a Matlab package to generate structured FEM mesh with 8-Nodes 3D Hexahedral elements for masonry facade buildings. The mesh created with MasonMesh can be used in many FEM analysis software/packages, such as openSees, FEAPpv, and FEDEASLab. The output of MasonMesh is two matrices: nodesXYZ and elem2n. nodesXYZ is nn-by-3, where nn is the number of nodes in the generated mesh, and the three columns are the X, Y, and Z coordinates of the mesh. elem2n is ne-by-8, where ne is the number of elements in the generated mesh, and the columns are the index of each vertex in nodesXYZ. The order of vertices in elem2n is courter-clockwise from bottom to up, which is compatible with most FEM software/packages. The visualization is created with the package "Postprocessing in FEM" created by Dr. Siva Srinivas Kolukula.