Research
A priori determination of thermal-mechanical deformation of an industrial robot arm; adaptive, thermal-mechanical finite element analysis; integration of hexahedral elements derived from free-meshed tetrahedral elements.
Application
Thermal-mechanical deformation in a robot linkage; tet-to-hex application for Bayer Healthcare Diagnostics.
Activities
Fellow and Board Member, Canadian Academy of Engineering; Commissioner, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission; Presentation to Smirt 20, Helsinki, 2009.
Conference Publications
‘Warm-Up in a Music Practice Session – An Interdisciplinary Examination of the Issues’, N. Ahmadi, D. Russell, M. McDill, G. Comeau, Invited Paper, 2010 International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research in Music Pedagogy, Ottawa, May 23-29, 2010.
‘The Regulator’s Reality in Canada Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission’, Invited Paper, Smirt 20, Moyra McDill, Commission Member, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, Espoo, Finland, Aug. 10, 2009.
Pranchalee Poonyapak, J. Moyra J. McDill, and M. John D. Hayes, “Experimental Error in Measuring Temperature-Induced Deformation in A Single-Link System,” 7th Int. Workshop on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danuabe Region, Sep 2008.
Pranchalee Poonyapak, J. Moyra J. McDill, and M. John D. Hayes, “Improving Robot Efficiency to Reduce Energy Consumption,” ICWES14, Jul 2008.
J.M.J. McDill, “The Leading Edge – Women in the International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences,” ICWES14, Jul 2008.
P. Poonyapak, M.J.D. Hayes, and J.M.J. McDill, “Investigation of Temperature-Induced Dimensional Distortion in a Mechanical System,” 12th World Congress in Mechanism and Machine Science (IFToMM 2007), Jun 2007.
J.M.J. McDill, “Membership Profiles in the International Council of Academies of Engineering and Science,” WEPAN, Jun 2007.
Books
Moyra McDill (2007), When Cancer Entered Our Family: How We Lived, Laughed, Cried and Survived, Novalis.