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March 20, 2024 at 10:01 am
Shuangxing Du
Ansys Employee

To allow the relative motions only along the spar local z-direction, please defined the pairs of fenders, which are fixed on torus-shaped WEC and the contacting surfaces are defined on spar, on two horizontal planes, as shown below

The fenders you defined which the fenders' axis is in relative vertical axis are still valid for modelling the PTO system. I wonder the sizes to these fenders could be bigger?