Beam elements not constructed properly when using NORMAL

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Beam elements not constructed properly when using NORMAL #3

Open ramcdona opened 1 year ago

ramcdona commented 1 year ago

See this discussion.

When using *NORMAL to provide per-element orientation information for B32 beam elements, one direction appears to not be calculated. This results in zero-width beam elements and bad Jacobians when solving.