back Building seven diagonal symmetric matrix This kind of matrix appears when assembling stiffness matrix for a beam using standard 2D beam element. The script below builds and solves a system with seven diagonal symmetric matrix d = [10, 21, 12, 33, 14, -15 ] e = [2, 1.1 5.2 2.3 -2.4] f = [1.0 3.1 1.2 2.3] g = [0.1 -0.2 1.3] b= transpose([1.0 2.1 1.2 4.3 1.4 6.5]) A = diag(d) + diag(e,1) + diag(e,-1) + diag(f,2) + diag(f,-2) + diag(g,3) + diag(g,-3) A\b en/research/notebook/sevendiag.txt Last modified: 2017/10/02 15:54(external edit)