dlooman
Ansys Employee

The beam "max combined stress" as described at the link below is the direct stress plus the largest of the four bending stress, sbz_top, sbz_bot, sby_top, sby_bot.  So in your case, it would be the stress at point A, not point B.  The name max combined stress is a little misleading.

 

Beam Tool (ansys.com)