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Automotive Race car suspension Class
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Find 3D Printer & Software Resources for Prototype Creation
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Insights When Vehicle Power Dictates Acceleration - Comments
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References for Design Engineers (Must Haves)
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Belt C-C distance to Tension
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Calculate minimum RPM to self-balance a CMG on two legs
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HP Required to move a robot 10meters at 1.5m/sec
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Bubble formation in 4 mm gap vessel
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Thread No-Go plug gage allows 3 turns to enter. That's too many!
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What type of toilet do I have?
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Automotive Why Do BMW Engines Suffer from Rod Bearing Issues?
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Soft/Stable Movement for Parallelogram Mount with Wheel + Printhead
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Cantilever help
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What's the most likely cause for this carbon seal crack?
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I need help, please, designing a pool sensor for breaking . . .
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Making a compressor from a steam engine or Tesla Turbine
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Mechanical Advantage on Gym Machines
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How Can an Engineer Assist in Evaluating My Generator Design Idea?
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How to estimate enthalpy change across a compressor in simple vapor compression cycle
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Designing a Mechanism for Two Half Circles' Synchronous Rotation
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Rankine vs. Stirling Engine
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Can a Spiral or Conical spring oscillate many times?
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Transmission problem involving oscillating arm
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Doublet flow in Fluid Dynamics between two spheres or cylinders
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How is bacteria added to a septic tank?
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Roll forming question about step-up
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Roll forming question
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Calibrating Pump/Venturi (Air) in a Closed Recirculating Water System
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Grease Flow in Ball Joint, Path of Least Resistance?
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Likely very simple Beam calcs...
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A question about the trajectory of movement
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Crazy idea for battle bot. Can it work?
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Waterfall plot of an PMSM
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Disengagement of a multi plate clutch
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Pneumatic Air Tools - Hose / Compressor Friction Loss?
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Are Kitchen and Bathroom Exhaust Fans Sufficient to Ventilate a Home?
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Powder coating: way to add more positive charge?
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Characterization of a valve
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How Does a Gravity Battery Work and Why Doesn't It Sustain Long Energy Output?
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Calculating enthalpies of gas mixtures
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Do engineers working on high-tech applications make approximations?
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3D printers for mechanical engineering
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Area Distribution Around Stays in EN 12953 Boiler Standard (10.2.8)
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Automotive Topology optimization of an engine's cylinder block
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Film Advance system research for DIY Camera
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Help! I need to find the speed of a conveyor to keep consistent gaps
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Is there a reason to use a woodruff key instead of a straight key?
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Bolt with spacers securing I-beam to floor
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Stopping/blocking low-frequency rumble from pool heater
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Help Designing a Brake Please
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Torsion: Simple Question about a Pulley and an Axle
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Can an axle connected to a wheel transmit momentum to the plate to which it is attached?
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Flowrate through an elliptical cross section of an oblique liquid jet
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Increase horsepower with steam in piston gasoline engine?
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Using a motor to spin two discs in opposite directions
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Mechanisms for multiaxis vibration
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BLDC Motor - Finding out how many Pairs of Poles and the difference with PMSM
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Spring-loaded trigger stays in position after impact
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Automotive Steering Force, Determining the Lever Arm
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Rated Current and Current in mini split Air Conditioner
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Static pressure tubes vs pitot tubes
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Centrifugal blower ringing?
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Bell siphon: output rate multiple times higher than the input rate?..
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How to Calculate Weight Transfer for Uprighting Vehicles with a Rotator Wrecker?
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[Cam Design] - Force and torque curves
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Weird Power Measurements with a Northern Lights Airforce Airdyne Cycle
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A few points regarding my wind turbine
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Modeling Air Compression Cylinder
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Robot and neural networks
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Can we increase force of an open nozzle that runs on compressed air ??
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Decay pressure testing
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Good valve for really small flow rates?
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Honeycomb Structures and Resolution in FEM
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Press fit curve analysis of two different bushings (force versus displacement)
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Help needed to solve a static analysis for the design of the Shaft for a Grinding Machine
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A novel compound epicyclic gear system I can't seem to understand
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Can Ancient Metalworking Techniques Enhance Modern Robotic Arm Design?
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Analyze this valve train Please
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Stiffened panel - moments of inertia
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What to Consider When Choosing a CNC Machine for Styrofoam Cutting?
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Direct Air Injection Engine Question
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Help me come up with a design
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How to calculate how much energy a pneumatic system would need?
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Generator start-up torque
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Carburetor cfm rating -- adding more air to intake manifold
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Objects with Constrained Rotation.
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