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Are steam-powered cars making a comeback?

  • mgb_phys
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Designing a Flexible Structure to Hold 150kg Load

  • alecs2613
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Function and placement of drain coolers in feed water heaters

  • ashoksmulpuri
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Final year project ideas in wind energy with site data collection

  • VooDoo
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Diesel Fuel Viscosity at Low Temperature

  • BentFranklin
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Double acting hydraulic water pump

  • davemas
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A question on vehicle aerodynamics

  • grey
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Velocity and accleration diagrams

  • monty37
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What Are Negative Absolute Pressures in Fluid Mechanics?

  • nanunath
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Steam table data vs experimental : Why the difference?

  • Doctor_Doom
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What Are Some Design Ideas for a 4 Bar Linkage Mechanism?

  • iii
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12 V Battery Conversion to HHO Generator

  • WhoWee
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Best Spur Gears for Ratio .31 under .5" Width, 2.4" OD

  • SlimJ87D
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Fan and Filter Seperation Dist.?

  • James3849
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Double cantilever beam problems

  • Olivialu
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Lagrange equation for mass-spring-damper-pendulum

  • tanquat
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Finding Load on Pulley Shafts with Belt Drives

  • Analysis
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Torque required to power a car

  • RohansK
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Motor Input Power: Does Load Affect Performance?

  • firavia
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Project related to piezometric control of vibration

  • ankit_ism
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Neutral axis in a composite beam

  • bigislander72
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Variation of a cylinder due to Temperature in ANSYS

  • harrelltim
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A National Maglev Infrastructure?

  • Kenneth Mann
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Can a 4X4 Car Maintain Driving Characteristics with Hydraulic Wheel Motors?

  • ducatiman
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Calculating the force at a single point of contact

  • hamzaaaa
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Building Pressurized Set-Up up to 70 Bar - Advice Welcome

  • Oxygenne
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Simulating blade rotation in a Banki turbine using FLUENT

  • teguhtf
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Heat Conduction through Carbon Steel Pipe

  • fujifilm6502002
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Where to start building a bobsled with welding

  • Cod
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How much water vaporizes when heated container is opened to 1 atm?

  • infinite_gbps
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Extending arm with counterweight balance question

  • Whymars
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How do piston pumps work mechanically?

  • odoury
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Starting freelance and contract work

  • jasc15
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Alternative to carbon steel for pipe manufacture?

  • g0ggs123
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How much electricity is generated from a 1.8 degree step induction motor?

  • jeff1233219
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What is the equation for Water Expansion when

  • infinite_gbps
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Scaling/non-dimensional navier-stokes

  • VooDoo
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Why composites in form of laminates

  • chandran
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Constant volume vs constant mass processes in thermodynamics

  • infinite_gbps
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Hydraulic Disassembly Bench (Thesis Project)

  • Gix
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How to Choose the Right Alternator for a Compressed Air Electricity System?

  • mcuongdt1986
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What equation determines compressor power from flow and pressure?

  • spiraltooth
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Accumulator Charging in a Sinusoidally Varying Hydraulic System

  • JoyceA
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Looking for heat engine simulation software

  • kkhu
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What is the Impact of Imbalance Force on a Rotating Shaft?

  • minger
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Does LOX or H2 seep through steel due to material permeability?

  • flatmaster
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Are Complex Mechanical Doorknobs Like Those in Movies Realistic?

  • reinaldo
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Robotics Kits: Where to Buy Online?

  • darthxepher
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Dynamic and static pressure at nozzle exit

  • aero_g
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What are kinematic pairs and chains?

  • monty37
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Self Cleaning Rack-and-Pinion Design?

  • fester225
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Creating Large Dynamic O-Ring Seals: Is It Possible?

  • gloo
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How does a double acting steam engine work?

  • thegr81
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What's the best/strongest material for RC car models?

  • Imbuter2000
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Ansys tutorials based on harmonic analysis

  • bhatt
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Which Tunnel is Safer: Less Vertical Cover vs More Vertical Cover?

  • ank_gl
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Understanding Stagnation Pressure in Cooling Fans

  • Saladsamurai
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Finding f(i,z) in nonlinear control system linearization

  • azizz
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How is a standard co-relation forumulated?

  • nanunath
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Cooling Load Calculation for Dough Passing Through Rollers

  • plucker_08
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Calculating Fan CFM Needed to Blow a Ping Pong Ball Vertically

  • Darktimes
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Steel Frame Analysis (suffer torsion)

  • Su Solberg
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Calculating Max Torque on a Ø140mm x 936mm Shaft

  • pegghead
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Modeling Heat Transfer with Comsol

  • mherna48
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Rotating disk with friction on the boundary

  • Fabiez
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What is the static COF for rubber on steel?

  • Mech King
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How to Calculate the Resonant Frequency of a Preloaded Spring Assembly?

  • kieren12345
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Units, Conversions and some useful materials data

  • Astronuc
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Rotating a 5m Cylinder: Calculating Initial Torque for Motor Capacity

  • sunovya
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Scope of low altitude tank with high pressure simulation.

  • dE_logics
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Making an up and down mechanism

  • android90
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Underwater low pressure water hydraulics

  • monet
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Hydraulic motors for hovercraft propulsion?

  • ronl@ere-sec
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Why are liners useful for pistons and how do they protect the engine?

  • monty37
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Using Titanium for Push Button Switches

  • KuKu427
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How do I choose the characteristic length for Reynolds number?

  • nanunath
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DIY hovercraft needs more thrust from paint booth fan

  • fatdaddym
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Predicting Young's Modulus of Banana-Epoxy Composite Using MATLAB

  • barbarahowser
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Efficient Sensor for Candle Detection in Firefighting Robot Competition

  • alphadog0309
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What is the force on a poppet valve due to expanding air?

  • tommy101
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Why Does My Thread Drive Torque Seem Excessive Under Load?

  • Sentient
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Report role of physics in engineering

  • invincible1
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Upright Washing Machine - Why no shaking during final spin cycle?

  • sir_manning
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Does the pressure take into consideration the area of the cylinder?

  • Auto Engineer
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Can any piston engine achieve nearly continuous combustion?

  • dE_logics
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Sample Dynamics Problems with solutions?

  • Will
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How do piston rings seal high pressure without excessive friction?

  • gloo
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Creating Coils from Copper Rod: Bending Process

  • trini
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Force applied to simple hand pump and resulting PSI

  • fred_1985
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How to size motor for compressor

  • martian212
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Can a 6-stroke engine approach Carnot efficiency?

  • monty37
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Gravitational potential energy storage - seeking comments

  • derick
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Basic Engineering design of a small lift

  • badharley99
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Calculating hydraulic force from cylinder diameter

  • doy555
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