Research Article

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

Algorithm 2

Data structures for nodes and quadrilateral cells.
Type Mesh_Node
 Id as Long
 Position3D (0 to 2) as Double
End Type
Type Mesh_Element2D
 Id as Long
 Element2D_Nodes (0 to 3) as Mesh_Node
End Type