There are two issues regarding outputting axial strain for beam elements:
1. It says in the manual that for beam elements one can output to the history file the axial strain as "bm-... AxialStrain", however this is not recognized by MARS.
2. There is in the manual the option "ContourVariable AxialStretch" for Quasar plot, is this the axial strain for a beam element? Is there a way to output axial strain of a beam element for Paraview? Can you please add it if there isn't?
Attached is a sample file.
Thank you.
LW