How to assign DOF ”free” for displacement only in one direction in ansys struct

- September 13, 2022 at 2:00 pm
  
  oumaimalahmar.ol
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  hello
  I want to constrain a surface such that it is not allowed to move in the +Z direction but free to move in the -Z direction.
  Z is normal to the surface.
- September 13, 2022 at 8:31 pm
  
  peteroznewman
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  Put another surface on the +Z side of the surface you want to prevent from moving in +Z and add Frictional or Frictionless Contact and the surface will be free to move in the -Z direction but not the +Z direction.
  A quick way to do the Frictionless version of that is to add a Compression Only Support and pick the surface.

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