Hi PRASHU,

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I would use the SIF's because they are also applied for Code sustained stress calculations. The same areas of stress concentration will be affected during your "jack-up" load application. It is intuitive to picture the deflection as only in the down direction (as the deck goes up) but the jack-up, being a dynamic loading, will likely cause some alternating deflections. It would be prudent to provide as much temporary bracing as is practical to limit the range of this alternating deflection

Regards, John.