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How to calculate the power needed to drive an engine with known piston and crankshaft mass
- hotepmichael
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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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How Can I Connect and Use Multiple Microphones for Real-Time Signal Processing?
- mike1111
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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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Does cycling car AC on and off use less energy than running it continuously?
- Teegvin
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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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Calculating Torque for a Darrieus Wind Turbine with 2 Blades and 1/8 HP Motor
- tingting
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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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Internal pipe liner for water/methanol system with high chloride and erosion-corrosion
- g0ggs123
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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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What caused a deep freezer's outer body to burn with normal electrical tests?
- fahad20
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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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