MATLAB: How to change variable name in for loop

for loopvariable

I am trying to do a problem for structural analysis, i got stuck in this part trying to make a for loop give me different variables, here's the example. Thanks in advance!!
for i=1:nel
        kl   =[J(1,i)    0       0    -J(1,i)     0      0
                0     J(3,i)  J(2,i)     0    -J(3,i)  J(2,i)
                0     J(2,i)  J(4,i)     0    -J(2,i)  J(5,i)
              -J(1,i)    0       0     J(1,i)     0       0
                0    -J(3,i) -J(2,i)     0    J(3,i)  -J(2,i) 
                0     J(2,i)  J(5,i)     0   -J(2,i)   J(4,i)]
end
I need a new "kl" each iteration, can anybody help me out, it's my first month using matlab.

Best Answer

A bold guess: Do you want to store the different matrices in a variable?
kl = zeros(6, 6, nel)
for i = 1:nel
   kl(:,:,i) =[J(1,i)    0       0    -J(1,i)     0      0; ...
              0     J(3,i)  J(2,i)     0    -J(3,i)  J(2,i); ...
              0     J(2,i)  J(4,i)     0    -J(2,i)  J(5,i); ...
            -J(1,i)    0       0     J(1,i)     0       0; ...
              0    -J(3,i) -J(2,i)     0    J(3,i)  -J(2,i); ...
              0     J(2,i)  J(5,i)     0   -J(2,i)   J(4,i)];
end
Or in a cell array:
kl = cell(1, nel);
for i = 1:nel
  kl{i} = ...
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