Thanks for the provided links and response Ashish
The apdl commands used in the youtube video served as the base for the one I used. The displacement applied to the beam in the video induced a peak stress which was below the defined yield stress, whereas in my analysis I'm trying to investigate the behaviour of the material when damage/softening occurs.
I also went through the other links and found the information very useful, however, none of the changes I made seem to address the large variations in peak stress when comparing both systems, even after I varied damage parameters.
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