Design and Development of Scissor Type Car Lifter

Abstract

Vehicles have always been heavy and requiring regular repairs. That was the necessity
behind car lifts’ invention. These days, car lifts are an integral part of many garages and
repair shops but it’s applications are not limited to that, they’re also used to raise vehicles
for storage in places where ramps are inconvenient or if there are space restrictions. The car
lift we are working on is used for raising loaded mini-trucks. The main objective of our
project is to design and analyze car lift to fit the given parameters and for doing that, the
history and types of car lifts are studied, several research papers are referred to. In case of
our lift, it had to be more stable and have a higher capacity so as to lift loaded mini-trucks.
The project uses Solid works for design and ANSYS for analysis of the CAD model of the lift.
After the design is analyzed, the parts are ordered and the lift is assembled. There were a lot
of problems we faced during the process and design and construction details were modified
accordingly.