2010 Mechanical Engineering Undergraduates

Traditional electric motors have a tradeoff between high torque and low rotor inertia. The goal of this project is to eliminate using the physics of eddy currents. We have created an eddy current brake which uses the same eddy current effect as an eddy current motor but is simpler to build. We hope to learn the effect of stator spacing, magnet size and shape, number of magnets, magnet radius, and phase angle have on braking force. This information will be used by another team to create an eddy current motor