Dear everyone,
I have problems with Abaqus. Could you help me to solve my problems? My problems are described below:

1. On model in step 1 the axial stress is applied and the step 2 cycling load is applied at the top of model. When running the step 2 after step 1 finished, is the axial stress still applied (Propagated) or deactivate (Inactive)?

2. When I changed the bc and bt value to make compression damage parameter and tension damage parameter larger approaching to 85%, 90%, and 95%, the program is aborted by error increment at 1e-35; however, my increment size in (minimum 1e-100). See the images.

Thank you in advance