Professor Francis C. Moon

FCM3@cornell.edu

Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Member of Graduate Fields of Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

Project #2 Smart Joints in Aerospace Structures

This project involves designing, building and testing a truss structure with active joints for adaptive shape control. The student will work to retro-fit an existing truss structure with active struts and joints using new mini-motor technology (1-2 cm).

Laboratory work; 60%, analysis 15%, computer simulation 25%. This project will build on the work of another project in 2002-03 that produced a working active joint mechanism.

Interested Students in this project should contact Ms. June Meyermann 607-255 0992 or jm75@cornell.edu for an appointment