Reply To: Self-made car jack – static structural analysis

[Erik Kostson]

Hi

Please do as below and follow it in detail:

• Remove the force you applied (delete the force)

 

• Add a displacement at the force location/face and push it down in y say by 0.0005 m (fix Z=X= 0 m).

 

• Look at the reaction at this displacement to get the force applied due to displacement. To do that : Drag and drop the applied displacement to the solution/results in the tree (see here:
  
  
  The displacement is needed since the model might not be stable (run a modal analysis and look for modes with freq.~ 0 Hz which are rigid body modes and show any instability).