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Calculate thickness of steel square tube

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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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Can anyone recommend a good book on Controls?

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Equivalent Pressure Washing Tests

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Free Vibration with Vicous Damping

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Fluid Mechanics Demo - Help choose dye

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Buckingham Pi Theory: Propeller & Pipe Flow Analysis for Jay

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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

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Liquid Tank Design: Design Solution for 100gpm Flow & 10min Retention

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Can I desgn a rotating disc without using a centre shaft

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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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Wind Turbines on Cars: Benefits & Challenges

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

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Modifying a Small Engine to Run on Hydrogen - Need Help!

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Stuck with calculating torque needed for Robot servo motion

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Top Recommended Machine Design Books for Mechanical Engineering Students

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Max Wheel Radius on Inclines w/ Torque & Speed

  • Jones1987
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Using centroid of object to find moment of inertia

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Failure Due to Stress or Strain?

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Dynabee/powerball wrist exerciser terminology

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Calculating Spring Force for a Multi Plate Clutch

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Dynamic equilibrium of vibrated beam-column member

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Solving the Problem of Horizontal to Vertical Motion with Gear Design

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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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Undercut Detection: Learn How to Identify an Undercut

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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

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How to change scale for fringe levels at ls prepost

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Calculating the velocity profile

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Coupling DC Motors with Timing Belt: Vibration Concerns?

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Difference between carnot and rankine cycle

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The cooling capacity of air-conditioner

  • superkaho
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Air required to cool water temperature

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RV folding table - Steel Tube question

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Modeling Composites in Explicit dynamics. [Ansys]

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(BSME only) Scientific Paper Question

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Thermal Energy to Useful Energy

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Can ANSYS Model Biomechanics in Dental Bone Regeneration?

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Pulley forces on truss crane problem.

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

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Force needed to rotate a drum/cylinder

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Re-arrangement of Stress Concentration Calculation

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Error Analysis of Airfoil Experiment

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Fully Developed Flow between two parallel plates

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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

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Calculating Bursting Pressure of a Pipe Cap

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

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Relation between irrotational and inviscid

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

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Malleability and bending of metal at cryo temp

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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

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Troubleshooting Solidworks Assembly Stuck: Tips for Smooth Motion

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Hibbeler Mechanics of Materials

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

  • Fat Ryan
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Beam Failure Analysis: Calculate Stress & Compare to Ultimate Strength

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Fabricate a sort of home radar/tracking system

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ANSYS: Create & Connect Multiple Bodies

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Calculate center of gravity of eco marathon aka supermileage

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

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Is My Thesis on Mechanical Vibrations Ready for Expert Review?

  • deadstar33
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Thermodynamics Energy balance Equation

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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

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How to detect Cylinder not moving?

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Heat transfer from gas to liquid during compression

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Used Car Engine Oil: What Mechanics Do & How to Filter

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

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Force required to move a 6 wheel cart

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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?

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

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Good textbooks for fluid mechanics and thermodynamics for MechE major?

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Airflow inside a computer tower.

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Help needed understanding the Vapour-Compression Cycle in refrigeration

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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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Max Horizontal Force: Calculate with Cam Setup & Motor Torque

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Troubleshooting Accelerometers - Calibration Issues

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Why Does IC Engine Torque Change with RPM and Gearbox Mechanics?

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