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Deflection of hose when internally pressurised
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Fire suppression in a sealed system
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Wind Flow Experiments: DIY Tutorials and Ideas
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Expert Tips for Zip Line Anchoring | How to Secure Your Backyard Zip Line
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Water level accuracy for squaring a car frame
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Material starting form for stub axle
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Simple bending moment calculation
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The Best Orifice Type for highest pressure drop
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Can I design a horizontal cylindrical hollow turbine blade
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Are these chrome plated pliers magnetic (ferrous)?
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How much load can 1/8" A36 steel carry?
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Will it float or will it crunch?
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Does anybody know the sampling frequency of a cop radar?
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Insights Interview with Instrument Engineer Jim Hardy - Comments
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Find Reactions to Overhanging Beam
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Discover the Best Truss Design to Support Your Fascia | Expert Tips
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PID control for drone rotations
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Whats wrong with my multimeter?
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Leaky Ballpoint Pens: Engineering Advancement
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Create Home Brew Bottle Capper: 6 at a Time
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Method Of Loading Carbon Molecular Sieve To Psa Tank
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How to Calculate Drag Load of Sticker on Fast Moving Vehicle
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Can a Railgun-Powered Ramjet Solve the Challenges of High-Speed Travel?
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Calculate shear strength A36 plate
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Air Pressure between two air tanks
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Temperature, humidity and gas sealed box
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Conditions for optimum isentropic efficiency
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Ideas for refrigerator door design
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Advice for 2x4 weight distribution....
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Industrial applications of IR communication
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What would be the Flow Rate of 7.5 Hp Pump
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How can I design high-quality EEG electrodes?
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Optimal Shape for a Submersible Object with 360 Degree Maneuverability
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Calculate motor torque requide to drive a cart
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What type of sensor does this faucet use?
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Finding thermal expansion problems for measurement technique
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Box Girder Distortion: Stability Geometry Explained
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Angle of pitch and heel for a boat snagged on the side wall
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Low Pressure Barometer: Gas Evolution Solutions
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What Are Alternative Terms for Moving a Pickoff Point in Control Engineering?
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A block diagram reduction [sign error]
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Where Does the Energy Go in an Electric High Pressure Water Motor or Pump?
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Evaporating water using heat and reducing vapour pressure
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How Fast Does Air Escape from a Pressurized Suit into Space?
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What building mass should be applied for 2D analyses?
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Solar Energy Conversion at Night
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Determing torque so that I may determine the diameter of my axle
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What does W7 in 'W7 stream cipher' stand for?
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What is the energy cost of making silicon?
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Do you think this waste-to-energy plant will work?
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Air Check Valve: Preventing Air Pressure Backup in Lift Fans
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Acoustics and Fluid Flow - COMSOL 4.2
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Engineering Software for Mechanical Simulations
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Practical Induction -- What Provides The Most Power?
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Liquids: Pascal's Principle and fluid collisions
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Can We Create Coolness Without Heat Using Innovative Technologies?
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Understanding the Equivalence of Two Mechanical Systems
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Favorite software for generating b/w mechanical drawings
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In Fluid Mechanics what is the difference between yc and hc?
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Can I Simplify a Block Diagram by Making Multiple G5 Blocks?
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Air Compressor Pressure vs CFM vs SCFM
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Predicting internal temperature with or without HVAC
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Cause of metal deterioration in heating element coil
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Compressibility/Expansion in a closed system
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How to read a Thermodynamic table?
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Listen to a steel ship just built in 1943, what do I hear?
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Is teflon a good material for conduction
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Instrumentation vs Measurement: What’s the Difference?
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Crush Cocoa Puffs with Compressed Air – Science Project
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Experimentally finding focal length of small biconvex lens?
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What do you guys think about Dynamic Tidal Power?
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Static Electricity: Does it Attract Food Waste?
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Optimizing Water Tank Volume and Pressure for a Wet Fire System on Upper Floors
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Two Pumps on one system flow question
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Can I make a heat-based transport pipe?
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Upthrust Reaction - Water Injection @ 5bar -8msw Subsea
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What does the Navier-Stokes equation look like after time discretization?
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Pump head requirement: Closed vs Open loop
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Sealing a wiring port to withstand water at 130+ psi?
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Efficient way to convert kinetic energy to heat
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Is this Variable frequency drive compatible with this motor?
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Do I need a feedback card to acquire motor RPM from a VFD?
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Why Does My Car's Fuel Gauge Show False Readings on Hills?
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How are wind turbine blades made to face the wind?
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Making bubbles and trying to use Trompe
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Why are gears made from bulk metallic glass ideal for precision robotics?
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Force needed turn robot wheel in stationary position
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Looking for inspiration to work on a project of my own (Robotics)
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