Research Article

Developing an Extended IFC Data Schema and Mesh Generation Framework for Finite Element Modeling

Algorithm 1

Decomposition into the connection model.
(1)for i = 0; i < n; i++ do
(2)for j = i + 1; j < n; j++ do
(3)  if RC (i, j) = true then
(4)   Do decomposition:
(5)    Create imprint face fi,j
(6)    Create normal vector ni,j
(7)    Copy to
(8)    Translate along −ni,j by ∆d
(9)    Copy to
(10)    Get connection objects:
(11)    a1: = 
(12)    d1: = iMD
(13)    d2: = 
(14)   end if
(15)  end for
(16)end for