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Strain Gauge Bonding: Permanent & Chemical Options
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ASTM A500 Grade B Square Tubing: Safely Supporting 180 lbs. Over 12 ft.
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Question regarding the transfer of forces through a spring
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Shock load due to high pressure gas flowing into container
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Anolok (dark brown) finish to terminate laser beam
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Can Metal Rubber Revolutionize Elasticity in Engineering?
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Building small hot rolling steel mill
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Can a Vacuum-based Buoyancy System Outperform Traditional Helium Balloons?
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Help in Optimization using Genetic Algorithms
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Choose the Right Electrostatic Filter: Criteria to Consider
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How do antennas convert current into electromagnetic waves?
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CFM calculation with a known fan and different inlet and outlet areas
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Calculating MTBF with Polimore for Confused Users
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Optics question-vacuum chamber for Ellipsometry
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How to Estimate Air Leakage into a Vacuum Vessel?
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Designing an outdoor electronic product (LED tree)
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Calculate thickness of a pressurized vessel
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Solving Heat Transfer Problem for Hydrogen Flow
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Acid resistant, heat conductive electronics enclosure
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Process of increasing solar cell efficiency- what's it like?
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How much will pipe weigh in a well
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Tool for measuring inner dimensions of a tube from an offset position
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Is 0.5% Efficiency for a Steam Ejector Reasonable?
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What knowledge is needed for Electromagnet design?
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Can Tube Diameters Be Measured Internally with Waves?
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When is it necessary to incorporate a tapped hole versus a drilled hole?
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Productions of national laboratory?
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Why do wind turbines have such low durability compared to hydraulic turbines?
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Why Does the Projection of Vector A on B Not Equal Zero?
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Drafting Question: What are auxiliary and sectional views?
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How to Find the Normal Force of a Spring on a Ball in a Non-Concentric Slot?
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Find Best Books for Rational Mechanics Course
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Is there a machine or force that can reverse the effects of a centrifuge?
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Electrical, Electronics or Mechanical engineer?
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Dynamical System Analysis using Mathematica
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FEM derivation for plates on elastic foundation ?
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Maximum-Surface Flat-Bottomed Structure
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Ansys Workbench- Max Principal Stress Error
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Chiller Water Loop Contamination
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Light, Secure Board Clamping Without Screws
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CFD Discretization: Building a Higher Order Code Using Polynomial Fitting
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Problems for designers in tolerance stackup analysis
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Calculating Moment and Deflection for Handrail Beam with Attached Bolt
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Being an Engineer : Essential - and interesting - mathematics and tools.
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Self-Mixing Interferometer vs Capacitive Sensor
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Determining the deflection of a support rod during acceleration
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Info on pumps for stress analysis
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Long Span Beam Design for Optimal Seismic Performance
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Force Vibration Music Instrument: Increase Vibration w/out Electricity
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Different devices charging on same wall plug
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Can High School Students Build a Spring-Assisted Magnetic Motor?
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2-node Frame FEM element thermal formulation
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How Do You Calculate the Second Moment of Inertia for a Reinforced Hollow Tube?
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Electro-Mechanical Engineer College Info Help
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Parrallel Plate Capacitor Model Question
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Moment Diagram of Cantilever Beam with Fixed End at Left hand side?
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Small Basic Project (solar panels to spin fans)
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Writing out MHz Band and the kHz Band?
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Engineering possible for non-inventors ?
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On motor at specific time everyday
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Gas flow units MSCMD, KM^3 and SM^3x10
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Fluid dynamics - Where to post questions?
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'levitating alternator' electricity generator question
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Final Temperature of Combustion Gases
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Quadcopter without propeller (with hidden propeller)
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Maximizing Efficiency: Water-Saving Solutions for Old Houses
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Why doesn't magnet + gravity = energy?
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Advantages/disadvantages of penalty formulation for incompressible fluid flow
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Bending Titanium bar using appropriate press tonnage?
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Flow rate and available head relation
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Even My Dr. Doesn't understand this problem
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Summer project ideas? Possibly a cyclotron?
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Why is W=0 not included in the excitation table for counters?
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Powder activated carbon transfer method
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Enjoying the Challenge of Difficult Classes: Unusual Enjoyment?
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Generator VAr Import and Reverse Power
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ZEMAX Help for coupling Diode Stack
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National Instruments MultiSim, or something else?
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Capacitors for power utilities and electric apparatus
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How to Obtain the Transfer Function for a Heating System with Dual Tanks?
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Drinking bird upsized, anchored barge.
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How do I calculate the heat transfer coefficient for pipe heat loss in Excel?
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Can Sprayable Materials Form Skeletons Inside 3D Labyrinths?
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Is it possible to create a tube with a variable diameter?
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Bullet impact force,velocity predicted by ballistic gelatin
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