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This routine is mainly used to read the stiffness and mass matrices from NASTRAN output file
Go to each test folder, run readKM_test_XXXX.m, select the corresponding *.pch file of interest
when you use it for other model, something you need to change as follow.
Keep improving... (Wei Zhao: [email protected]), enjoy!
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1. Change path folder in addpath('') for each case. For example, in test_1 folder,
   change the line 43 folder path to yours where the readMass.m and readStiffness.m locate
2. GRDSET is a vector for degrees of freedom constrained
3. For the test cases here, comment 'PARAM,EXTOUT,matrixpch' when you run them for mode results using NASTRAN SOL103
4. *.PCH includes stiffness and mass matrices. They are directly used in eigenvalue computation. We called A-set
5. *.f06 includes eigenvalues and the corresponding eigenvectors from NASTRAN analysis - sol103
6. For nodal labels, it is better to copy them from *.pch after the line 'DMIG*   VAX                            1               0' and unique these values. 
   because some grids could possibly not considered in FEM when the element between two nodes has no properties, such as RBE2.
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7. Because Github cannot identify *.pch file automatically, the uploaded stiffness and mass matrices are stored in *.pch1 file.
   change them to *.pch when you download them, and run the program.
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