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Is Transient Structural Analysis Necessary for Contact Problems in ANSYS 12?

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Convincing a female friend to buy an aluminium bicycle

  • bill nye scienceguy!
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Mixing air how much water leaving?

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Advanced Technologies (Please suggest)

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Calculating Force Transmitted by Rubber Mountings to Failed Bracket

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Motion of an object submerged in water.

  • aero&astro
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Hydralic force needed to rasie 80' mono tower?

  • wyo123
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Force of wheel Perependicular to road over speed hump

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What is the maximum mean stress in a bolted joint?

  • Q_Goest
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Can Turnstile Gears Efficiently Generate Electricity?

  • makovx
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Air compressor calculations for engine super charger

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Finding Software to Analyze Airflow over a Wing

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Falling sphere method to find fluid's viscosity

  • omicgavp
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Relating Radial Strain to Circumferential

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Calculation to work out if a structure will fail?

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Designing Test Plate for Leak Rate Test on Butterfly Valve

  • bulldog fan
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Modern uprated design for an Einstein refrigerator

  • NintendoKD
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Is E&M a Significant Part of a MechE Degree?

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3D Printing and CAD for Robotics

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Cylinder head and Cylinder block

  • ruzfactor
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Plasma Drag Reduction & Hypersonic Travel

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Force Required to Overcome Friction

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Starting My Project: A Hydrolic Spider/Walker Machine

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Designing & Pricing a Hydraulic System - Help for College Project

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Heat transfer internal flow through circular tube.

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Sorting Different Materials Balls By Weight: Most Efficient Method

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Designing a Trolley Hydraulic Jack: Need Help with Lifting Pad Layout

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Boundary Element Method Output Files Conversion

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Good Books for an undergraduate first year Mech Eng.

  • knight92
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How Can I Apply Gold to a Microscale Cantilever?

  • sabeha
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Force pushing against piston in car engine

  • daletaylor
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How Does an Electromagnetic Radial Piston Engine Work?

  • poopar
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Exerting torque on an extension spring to overcome friction in a helical tube

  • bill nye scienceguy!
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What specs do I need for a notebook to run Pro/E efficiently?

  • alvarez91
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What Are the Typical N-Values for Low Carbon Steel?

  • MightyQuinn11
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Truss stress compressive/tensile stress

  • peet_dk
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Designing Pressure Vessel for Heating Air to 500 C

  • RKD89
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What is the torque needed to open a 2000kg door?

  • steve_5959
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Generating vertical vibrations

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Help for Junior Project Design Class - Servo Motor & 555 Timer

  • hc3
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A question about long-stroke or undersquare engines

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Programming in mechanical engineering

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Steel Tube Trapize Hanger Weight for 10'x4'x10' U-Shape

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Pressure, Force, and Engineering

  • WehrdScience
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Check Valves: Questions Answered

  • RKD89
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Interested in Building a Thermojet Engine for Your Next Project?

  • ganuganu
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Making a Mount for LCD Monitor - Up, Down, Left, Right, Far & Close

  • wajed
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Ship wing. Do they have to be Delta?

  • Lazernugget
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IC Engine converted to hybrid air engine

  • mfritze
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Patch load on stiffened panel ?

  • XaeroR35
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Force/pressure exerted from rubber band

  • pryphnoq
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Converting angular momentum into power

  • bmed90
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Any good HEAT TRANSFER books out there?

  • Jennifer_88
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Why does the refrigerant in an air-conditioner's evaporator become cold?

  • partialfracti
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What is the best symbolic solver software?

  • czechman45
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Where Can I Find a Heavy Duty Car Trailer for a Mobile Vehicle Lift?

  • Mleslie21
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Fretting Corrosion: Resistance of Materials & Accelerated Life Test

  • B.delong
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About 2 vehicles going down hill

  • Pagedown
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Auto shutdown problem in automobile(motorcycle)

  • jack001
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Gear Torque Basics: Questions & Answers

  • Frimkron
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Can Hydraulic Tonnage Be Added for Increased Press Capacity?

  • hmc
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Relationship between CFM vs PSI

  • xr3tf
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Heavy duty door, automatically operated

  • steve_5959
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Angular Acceleration: Motion, Force & Direction

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Optimizing Heat Exhaust Capture for Natural Gas Fired Industrial Heaters

  • Jake Platt
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Looking for a Bottle Jack for a Hydraulic Car Jack

  • Ludapower
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Mech Eng Major & Aero Eng Minor?

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Layer of Ice in water pipe (affect on heat transfer)

  • sam...wise
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Counteractive forces at 3 points

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Insulating a Steam Pipe in a Factory: Ideal Type, Thickness, and Cost

  • jojo4nb
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What kind of a pump is used in creating vacuum

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Where Can We Find Limit Cycles in Practical Machines?

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Zone heating with a single furnace

  • mheslep
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Calculating Torque: Angular Moment of Inertia, CoF & Shaft Dia

  • mawais15
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Designing a Plenum Chamber for Motorcycle Supercharging

  • phillip1978
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What distinguishes First and Second Order Systems?

  • Jones1987
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Mechanics of Materials Explanation

  • jaredogden
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Rated capacity for webbing flat slings

  • guideonl
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Is the Calculation of Torque to Lift 100kg Accurate?

  • geek743
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Understanding Aircon Heat Exchanger Capacity: Calculation Methods Explained"

  • plucker_08
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Boundary value problem for heat conduction (HELP)

  • Jennifer_88
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Learn How 6 is Derived in Strain Gage Bending Formula

  • sean882
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Moment of Inertia Clarification

  • laforzadiment
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Moment of Inertia and the IPS system.

  • jasc15
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Syringe Pump Manufacturing: Motors Used in Systems

  • hanson
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Automated Launcher: Launching 4m & 50g Projectiles

  • Daruki
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Solving Material Nonlinearity From Temperature Change with Ansys

  • markcini
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Max. torque on a shaft with an unbalanced load

  • WallyLux
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Predicting Temperature with a Simple Heat Transfer Model

  • ptfoster
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CNC Lathe Material Removal: Why Higher Rates & Revs?

  • IbertIzzet
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Utilizing to generate power of excess 60# steam

  • shamfa0g
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Understanding Radial Float - What is it?

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Master 3D Modeling with Movable Parts: Create Dynamic Designs with Ease

  • qwertymk
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How much power does vavletrain use?

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