So I tried the Elastic Microplane Model (Solid185) on another beam, and the Maximum Principal Stress finally hit close to 2.04MPa, as it should be 
Maximum Principal Stress
The beginning of the softening
Maybe there is something wrong with my model for the beam we were discussing. Just wanted to share to results! Thank you once again
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