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• Bring up the Displacement result again by clicking on that object in the tree.
• I prefer to turn off the deformation in the view as per snapshot below.
• Zoom into the right end using the right mouse button.
• Click Probe and check the displacement values away from the point load.

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I get a value around 0.045 mm at the right end away from the point load. This is about a 10% deviation from the hand calculation result of 0.05 mm we obtained in our Pre-Analysis. This is a reasonable agreement considering that the hand calculation ignores the high stress areas at the left and right ends. But these high stress areas (both tensile and compressive) affect relatively small areas of the model and so don't contribute a lot to the overall displacement.

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Thus, we can be reasonably confident that the ANSYS model has been set-up correctly. We have however not checked that we have resolved the high stresses at the left and right ends correctly. So we cannot say anything about when the part would fail. Further mesh refinement may be needed. We also should get rid of the stress singularity at the point load (by distributing the load over an areait over a region) and at the left corners (by filleting these corners).

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