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What are the drawbacks of incorporating hydrogen into electric powertrains?

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Heating water tubes in a fixed parabolic solar dish to drive a turbine

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Solving Tony's 400 Suction Cup Project

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Calculate thickness of steel square tube

  • manu_vmv
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The Energy Expended by a turning wheel

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Simple stress, strain, elongation relationship question

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What are the essential components of a basic two-stage spur gearbox?

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Book on implementing control systems from theory to hardware

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Equivalent Pressure Washing Tests

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Free Vibration with Vicous Damping

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Choosing dye to color glycerine for flow visualization demo

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Buckingham Pi for propeller speed and pipe flow combined

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Will Water Flow in Syphon System?

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Method of allowing wires into a hermetically sealed unit

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Thermal Modelling: Ansys for Temperature Distribution in Structures

  • chetanladha
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Tank design for 100gpm with 10min retention time verification

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Can I desgn a rotating disc without using a centre shaft

  • jeredane
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How can I design a GearBox with specific inputs from my company?

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Designing a single cylinfer 4 stroke engine for a moped

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Could turbines in car spoilers or brakes recover energy?

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How Do You Calculate the Second Moment of Area for Complex Shapes?

  • Raita
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Converting a brush cutter engine to run on hydrogen

  • mattpbarry
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Torque for spinning a mass on a rod: accounting for gravity

  • Robo3
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Top Recommended Machine Design Books for Mechanical Engineering Students

  • McEngStudent
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How does a DC motor behave climbing an incline above its rated power?

  • Jones1987
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Using centroid of object to find moment of inertia

  • petitericeball
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Failure Due to Stress or Strain?

  • 247killingtim
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Why does the Dynabee rotor pin spin opposite to its ends?

  • Robin Hooper
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Calculating Spring Force for a Multi Plate Clutch

  • HNCMATHS
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Dynamic equilibrium of vibrated beam-column member

  • omarxx84
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Solving the Problem of Horizontal to Vertical Motion with Gear Design

  • larryqueen07
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How can I obtain a unique solution for my index finger modeling problem?

  • realriver
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Consequences of Incorrect Valve Timings on Your Engine

  • FishmanGeertz
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Sea Water Thermodynamic Properties?

  • tanky322
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How can I identify an undercut on a machined part?

  • gpavanb
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Building a Wind Generator with a DC Motor

  • wright3400
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Power consumption of electric motor

  • TOONCES
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Strength Coefficient and Strain-Hardening Exponent

  • eku_girl83
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How to change scale for fringe levels at ls prepost

  • ctaini
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Calculating the velocity profile

  • hazzie12
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Coupling DC Motors with Timing Belt: Vibration Concerns?

  • robs314
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Difference between carnot and rankine cycle

  • abhishek_sai81
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The cooling capacity of air-conditioner

  • superkaho
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Air required to cool water temperature

  • Vig16
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RV folding table - Steel Tube question

  • WVVan
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Modeling Composites in Explicit dynamics. [Ansys]

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(BSME only) Scientific Paper Question

  • myshadow
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Thermal Energy to Useful Energy

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Can ANSYS Model Biomechanics in Dental Bone Regeneration?

  • dds2009
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Pulley forces on truss crane problem.

  • hollidca
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How can we improve the safety of school/tour buses in the event of a collision?

  • newhavendave
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Force needed to rotate a drum/cylinder

  • sniffy
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Re-arrangement of Stress Concentration Calculation

  • chrisb009
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Error Analysis of Airfoil Experiment

  • ruzfactor
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Fully Developed Flow between two parallel plates

  • JasonB_VT
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Will an engine spin faster with the spark plugs removed?

  • bluechipx
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Fluids - Conical vs Cylindrical Water Clock

  • sean882
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What is the pressure of fluid exiting a pipe into an open tank?

  • Moolan
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Calculating Bursting Pressure of a Pipe Cap

  • darkelf
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Pressure drop in pipe due to bends and/or pressure reducing valves ?

  • AKapoor
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Relation between irrotational and inviscid

  • haisol
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Why is the Stream Function Psi Limited to 2-D Incompressible Flows?

  • haisol
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Malleability and bending of metal at cryo temp

  • uWave_Matt
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Can We Calculate Deflection of a Rod Placed on a Tall Building?

  • Eagle9
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Can Ultra Sound Detectors Conflict with Other Components on a Mobile Robot?

  • Jones1987
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How to transfer heat dissipate by heat sink into one spot

  • DigiDigi
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Solidworks assembly won't move parts in correct sequence

  • Curl
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Hibbeler Mechanics of Materials

  • jaredogden
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Relationship between mass moment of inertia and second moment of area?

  • Fat Ryan
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Does comparing stress to ultimate tensile strength predict beam failure?

  • grapfinest
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Fabricate a sort of home radar/tracking system

  • polka129
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How to keep separate bodies in ANSYS without merging them

  • fedor1ht
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Calculate center of gravity of eco marathon aka supermileage

  • jimmyctsean
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Answer: Job Hunting? Gear Question - Which Makes More Revolutions?

  • bikerken1977
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Feedback on my mechanical vibrations thesis

  • deadstar33
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Thermodynamics Energy balance Equation

  • jaredogden
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Air velocity from small aperture

  • pdfmech
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What's Causing My Car's Black Smoke and Stalling Issues?

  • FishmanGeertz
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Heat pipe?-a thermodynamics problem

  • lirexin
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Parallel or inline for most cfm

  • sack98
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How to detect Cylinder not moving?

  • nickchow
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Heat transfer from gas to liquid during compression

  • kbka
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How do mechanics filter dust and particles from used engine oil?

  • RKD89
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FEA issue with workbench plus question on equation with conical shells

  • R.enR
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Force required to move a 6 wheel cart

  • iamatallone
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Second moment of area of Launch Vehicle adapter model

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What factors affect the tension in a zip line?

  • daddylange
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How to Design a Torsion Spring for a Carousel Loading Mechanism?

  • deborah_88
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Good textbooks for fluid mechanics and thermodynamics for MechE major?

  • Blkmage
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Airflow inside a computer tower.

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Pressure reduction and increased volume

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Finding the Right Electric Motor for My Pump Setup

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Best MS Student Calculator for 3rd Year Mech Eng Student

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