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Understanding Engineering Drawings: Deciphering Front and Bottom Views

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Distance and time required to stop a sliding unit?

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Can a Wind Turbine Improve the Efficiency of a Moving Car?

  • The_Thinker
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Designing Connector for Wind Turbine Blade Root

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Need:150cfm blower to pump pressurized (~40bar) H2 with delta P ~5bar

  • EtaSystems
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Load sharing in parallel vs orthogonal screws

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Shock waves in crystals - temperature effect

  • johng23
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Q: Flange PN size selecion (BS EN 1092-1)

  • Su Solberg
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Torsion in hollow rectangular steel tube

  • franznad
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Gas compressor vs air compressor

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How Do I Calculate the Power Required to Rotate a Cable Drum?

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Can a Car's Engine Rotate in Reverse at Startup?

  • R Power
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Friction Coefficient: How to Determine for Journal Bearing

  • Baskey
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Damping due to porous plate travelling through hydraulic oil

  • Mech King
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Spring response to sinusoidally varying force

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Landing Gear reliability testing.

  • nomorevishnu
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Robotic lawn mower powered by 3000W generator with four drill motors

  • kevindeschamp
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Stream Function vs Streamlines: What's the Difference?

  • connor415
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Help building a valve information library website

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Advantages/Disadvantages of V-8 vs V-12 6.0L Engines

  • R Power
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Creating Energy with Hydraulics

  • rexreid
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Calculating Torque to Turn a Rod

  • kenn6752
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Science magazines called OMNI, are these still being made

  • land_of_ice
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Calibrating a strain-gage scale for a spaghetti bridge using LabView

  • BuickBoy
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Motor to Push Air into a Piston

  • omalleyt
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What is the physical meaning of polar moment of inertia?

  • R Power
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Code for fluid dynamic in 3D written in Scilab

  • jangolobow
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In need of a modification idea for the design of an ice making machine

  • Scylla
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Derivation of Continuity Equation in Cylindrical Coordinates

  • jhuleea
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Understanding How Seals Work on Autoclaves

  • Andronicus1717
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Minimize the power loss in worm gear drive system

  • Analysis
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Build Your Own Homemade Dyno for Small Engines

  • varnish
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How Does Gas Volume Change After Combustion in an Engine?

  • CHICAGO
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Calculating bending stress in channel cross sections

  • mechdesign2k4
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Export Anemometer Data to Computer

  • minger
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What are some useful CFD theory notes for beginners?

  • minger
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Gas pressure in internal combustion gasoline engine

  • lokendra.s
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Insane Jet Maneuvers, where do they get the mass flow?

  • wesmac
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Difference between a flywheel and a governor

  • R Power
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Calculate power lossess against road gradients

  • Carvinos
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Velocity-Time relationship for acceleration/deceleration

  • grey
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Variable tension apparatus for transducer analysis

  • thadman
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How Does Increased Engine Load Affect Air-Fuel Ratio on the Race Track?

  • TexanJohn
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How can I design an apparatus to resist a 300 lb load moving at 1 m/s?

  • omalleyt
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Finding force required to pull a block up an incline

  • jamesd2008
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Simulink Modeling for F1 Car Start from Standstill

  • ashwindg
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Everybody builds a cars or automobile as project

  • R Power
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How to increase the abrasion resistance of rotor

  • Santhosh KN
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General loading, shear and moment relationships

  • emRage
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Product moment of inertia of an inclined section of a beam

  • emRage
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Energy Converted to Electricity

  • ronandkryn
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Are there any engines that defy traditional design and function?

  • dr dodge
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Airflow through a radiator with a restriction

  • blackman
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Air flow changes in a pipe with the change in gas temp?

  • tjrex
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Fishing rod mechanics and curvature calculations

  • cardboard
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Equivalent stress in a welded part

  • guideonl
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Gas engine running on Veggie oil -

  • parkland
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Cantilever square tube capacity

  • superduty335
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Designing an inline flare gas combustion chamber

  • benjaminb
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Pulleys question - Need a rig to lift with a MA=107?

  • gruff
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Calculating temperature change over time

  • Fancy Moses
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Creating an Air-Hockey table but to slide Tortilla Chips over

  • BachmanEng
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Interview a MECHANICAL ENGINEER

  • jaredmurray22
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What is Full Load in Engine Performance?

  • roti_mentega
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How to form the global stiffness matrix for a planar truss

  • Freyster98
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Robotics kit recommendation for $200-400 with upgradeable design

  • Rhine720
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Weight transfer due to drive torque

  • R Power
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Computer controlled machine/robot?

  • silentwf
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Which Thermocouple Type Is Best for Measuring Water Temperature Dynamics?

  • peter.duncan
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Low RPM motor propelling a highway vehicle

  • wmingin
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Steering Mechanism for 40KG Battle Robot

  • ukesh
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How can COMSOL be used to model convection in a room with a radiator?

  • adeekay
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Why is there no stress relaxation test for PTFE gaskets?

  • jack2100
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Dehumidifier from a walk-in freezer unit?

  • makeitshine2
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What Pump Size Do I Need for 5 Nozzles at 3000 Psi and 0.84 GPM Each?

  • jweb05
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Pumps having hot roller bearing

  • Banting
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Why does torque decrease at higher RPM in engine power curves?

  • R Power
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Rollover Risk: Will a Car Tip Over if Centre of Gravity Changes?

  • varunsangani
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Convert air compressor to air motor?

  • testingcw
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T-v diagram at constant pressure crossing saturation line

  • jahlin
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Strange 80mm Tube Axial Fan Curve - Flowrate vs RPM

  • Saladsamurai
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Fluid mechanics - Bernoulli Ball

  • spano
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The question is: Where does the blasius friction factor formula come from?

  • Libertiene
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Distance for an IC engine for a given load

  • grey
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Non-linear oscillating system for undergrad project modeling

  • aberrated
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Wire Apparatus that Moves with Constant Speed Under Weight

  • omalleyt
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Torque and power needed to rotate a tube with rectangular mass on top

  • Rem Grwthy
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Relation between angular acceleration of driveshaft and wheels

  • R Power
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Find a New Path to Research - Mechanical Engineering

  • asitha87
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Calculate water exit velocity from mass flowrate and RPM

  • gwdonovan
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