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Reliance: Herreshoff Marine Museum, Arnold Robinson, George Dalton, Sean Damico, Eric Doremus, Brian Fortier, Jeffrey Goncalo, Arthur Lee
Reliance: Herreshoff Marine Museum, Arnold Robinson, George Dalton, Sean Damico, Eric Doremus, Brian Fortier, Jeffrey Goncalo, Arthur Lee
Engineering and Construction Management
The Roger Williams University Reliance team is working in cooperation with the Herreshoff Marine Museum in Bristol, RI to create a 1/6th scale model of the 1901 Americas Cup defender, the Reliance. The project can be broken up into two sub-projects. The first, to design a museum-quality cradle to hold the 24ft fully rigged model at a 15O angle. The second sub-project is to perform full strength/structural analysis of all the critical components on the model to ensure that their strength is great enough to withstand the applied forces. This second sub-project is going to be the focus of the …