t">% Initializes the elements of the model with the corresponding</span>
        <span class="comment">% properties</span>
        <span class="keyword">function</span> initializeElements(this)
            <span class="comment">% Initialize the vector with the Element's objects</span>
            elements(this.nelem,1) = Element();

            <span class="comment">% Assemble the properties to the elements' objects</span>
            <span class="keyword">for</span> el = 1 : this.nelem
                <spa