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Can I vent attic heat into the garage to cool my house?

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Fluid Surface Interaction (FSI)

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Constraint equations for a sphere rolling on a fixed sphere

  • hmoein
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Tradeoff Bet. SNR and Bandwidth.

  • Peon666
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Using 2 bolts M12 or 4 bolts M6?

  • cherish
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Dynamic Mesh Analysis for Wind Turbine Blades

  • haa72
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Quick Electric On/Off Water Valves

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Force required to pull a threaded tube from its socket

  • beartato
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Where to find scroll compressor heads and specifications

  • RonL
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Complete theory of fin and tube radiators

  • distinctions
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CVT transmission for an electric motor

  • Ayrity
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Race Line in CFD: Finding the Fastest Route for Go-Cart Racing

  • herpamad
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How to machine a NPT internal thread?

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How can I build a dehumidifier?

  • Mk
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Solving Hydraulic Cylinder Issue: 100N Force at 4m/sec, Stroke 128mm

  • Murali_1972
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How to calculate air flow rate from pressure and pipe diameter

  • hoshe
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Robot arm lacks rigidity when assembled

  • minmonster59
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Principal Stress, VonMises Stress , Fatigue

  • harsunra
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Building a piston/cylinder expander for isentropic gas expansion

  • CS Bence
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Steady Flow Energy Equation Problem.

  • djw42
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How ducted fan engines differ from jet engines in thrust generation

  • krisd
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Strength Of Materials (Sample Problems Solved)

  • ItsDaKronic
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How Does an Implosion Engine Work?

  • monty37
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Calculate Air Speed in Turbine Tunnel - PSF.AT.00252V2

  • albertwinnie
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How Far Will a 76 kg Person Fall with a Doubling Bungee Cord?

  • NicholasAllen
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Why does leaning toward the center speed up a merry-go-round?

  • donbcg
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Calculating forces on FSAE suspension in static and dynamic cases

  • blackmamba91
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Calculate Force: Torque, T = F x r

  • SunSunny
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Good Books for Mechanical Engineering Students

  • C.KIRANKUMAR
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Can electric cars steer with wheel speed instead of mechanical linkage?

  • teroenza
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M: Calculating Cutting Forces for an ROV Manipulator Arm

  • needhelp321
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Essential piping and mechanical design drawings for field engineers

  • amnoorulaman
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Why do mechanical engineers use C programming?

  • C.KIRANKUMAR
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Resonant modes of simply supported square plate

  • quantumlight
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Power screw horizontal applicaion FBD

  • M.E. Tom
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Steel Mounting Bracket Question

  • jsigned
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Vorticity of Aircraft Trailing Vortices

  • Danis
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Opposite Direction/Opposing Forces

  • CountFleet
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Materials for a small humanoid robot body

  • becheras
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Worm gear CAN NOT selft locking

  • tendem
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The catamaran tank - an MRAP which doesn't roll over

  • Peter Dow
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Fan and propeller shapes for noise and efficiency

  • kach22i
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Modeling, Simulation and Engineering Design.

  • koolraj09
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Can a small jet engine produce torque with planetary gearing?

  • messymarsh
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How Effective is Blocking Side Gaps in Vent Filter Systems?

  • Darknes51986
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Gearing a 2.2KW 24000RPM Motor to 200RPM Output Shaft Torque

  • donbcg
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What is the spring constant for a uniformly loaded clamped beam?

  • sbarrett5432
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Velocity of pulley when spooling line?

  • Wallys
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Where Can I Find Dual Shaft Right Angle Gearboxes?

  • Whatamiat
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Calculating compressed air system leakage

  • sagaris
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Calculation for injection molding

  • wan2juice
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Driver Car Seat Motion Mechanism

  • Yaniv Mordeha
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How to plot actual compressor performance on manufacturer performance chart?

  • engine_puppet
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DC Motors & Gear Boxes: Get Ahead of Your Assignment!

  • Trenthan
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Why does a small air motor require more CFM than the compressor's rated watts?

  • Mike_In_Plano
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What are the best combustion properties for jet engine air?

  • vincentryan
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Parameters to design a breaking system

  • sachin.s
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Can Static Toughness Data Accurately Predict Impact Load Failures?

  • srchandran
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Heat Transfer from Air to Dynamic Fluid in Pipe

  • chriskaselak
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Enquiry: Bending not along principle axis?

  • Su Solberg
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Static pressure decreases pump work

  • humbleguy
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How Do You Calculate Flow in a Vibrating Feeder?

  • em07189
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Pneumatic/hydraulic simulation software?

  • ranger
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Nutating disk engine perspectives

  • Stanley514
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Engineering Mechanics: Get Your Top Book Recommendations Here!

  • nanunath
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Device to check tension in wire ropes

  • caslor
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2D Finite Element Transient Heat Problem

  • mc112
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Retro-Engineering Or Reverse-Engineering

  • IrvinME
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Safe Pressure for Aluminum/Acrylic Cylinder Container

  • 72Zorad
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How to Calculate Moment and Shear for a Wind Turbine Spar Design

  • mechanosauras
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Loss coefficients for a pipe splitting into 4 branches

  • Colom08
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Rockwell hardness of valve lifters

  • undesiredshoe
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Toleracing of center distance with internal gear

  • cherish
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Failure point of a plastic truncated cone under 30 tonne axial stress

  • DougieB39
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What drives evaporation and diffusion?

  • Saladsamurai
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How to determinate instantaneus torque

  • dot_francesco
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Avoiding (acoustic) noise from the electric motor

  • Twinbee
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Where can I find a site for sharing 3D CAD models?

  • principia
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How can we solve the fatigue problem in a more efficient way?

  • ella_lei9
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Dyna result doesn't match Test result

  • lambertlai
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What are the effects of boiling in a heat exchanger?

  • TheHypnotoad
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Need information how with simple technology make sticky fly paper

  • Ahmed_YJJ
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Finding damping coefficient of material

  • srchandran
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How does the water pump inside a steam iron work?

  • Quincy
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Question to Mechanical engineers

  • TRSCC
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Engineering Graphics w/ I-DEAS by NX - CAD Software

  • jcsolis
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Finding heat transfer coefficient experimentally

  • DinoRF
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Simple Stirling engine design for 80°C operation

  • leevi27
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Modeling Sandwich Composites in Workbench: Non-Penalty Based Contact?

  • BlkHwkEng
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Inelastic Buckling/Buckling in short columns

  • roanoar
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Calculating shell side velocity and Reynolds number in baffled heat exchanger

  • PHYS&MECHE
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How to Calculate Buckling Force for Edge-Applied Loads?

  • roanoar
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Designing and optimizing a hybrid powertrain for niche vehicles

  • harvi101
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