Hello! I have designed a hook to 3D print that I want to make to hold onto a gym barbell (I actually will print two of them), as you can see in the render attached. I am trying to perform a static stress simulation to test how the hook will deform when the barbell is loaded, but I have a bunch of questions which the few tutorials I found on youtube didn't really solve.
I have tried to constrain the handle of the hook to
"fixed" and then I applied a force load on the part of the hook which will be in contact with the barbell pointing down, to simulate weight added on the barbell. Additionally, I turned on gravity.
While this worked well, I would like to actually see what happens when I load weight on the sides of the barbell instead (i.e. I want to simulate the 2 bodies interacting with each other simultaneously).
I am not sure if I should just try "automatic contacts" and then load the barbell sides and then everything will be calculated, or if instead I should completely change study and do a "quasi-static event simulation" or a "dynamic event simulation".
I want to really study both the deformation on the barbell and hook along with the stresses on both interacting with each other.
Thank you very much!
