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Best shape to flip or spin in Water?

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Which truss structure is stronger in this jpg?

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Gravitational Potential Enery and Tidal Power Generation

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Lower Pressure of 9.5L/min Fluid Through 3.17mm Passage

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Structural dynamics - advice for senior thesis

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R134a System Circulators: Finding the Right Pump

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How Long Until a Perfectly Sealed Box Reaches 32°F?

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Deflection of beam formula NOT considering loads

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Can Transfer Air Effectively Cool a Small Server Room?

  • Samj008
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Minimization of losses in a piston compressor

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Dynamic calibration of a Flexiforce pressure sensor

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Calculating volume required for a pressure value ( for duct design)

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Cylindrical robot arm design: actuators, motors, and materials

  • SHAZRIL
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Modeling Aircraft Wing as Cantilevered Beam

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3-Dimensions Finite Element Programming

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How these are coupled to the engine on F1 cars?

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How do I calculate the damage on a lightning pole from a car impact?

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How Feasible is Pneumatic Regenerative Braking for Vehicles?

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Fluid Mechanics: Upstream Pressure Distribution

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Basic Dimensioning for Human Wheel Design

  • Dansercoer
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How to Calculate Torque for Rotating a Supported Vertical Load?

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Why do motorcycle engines produce high rpm but low torque?

  • nishantjn
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Reflux Engine System: Berg's Concept of a More Efficient Engine

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Solve System of ODEs with Comsol Multiphysics

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Plc based blending system, need more info.

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What does nautical engineering education involve?

  • TheRyan
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What do i need to know to build oil expeler?

  • bineyame
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Gear Design Resources - Get In-Depth Info for Seminar

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Centrifugal Force - Is It Real?

  • oldskool
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ASME Boiler and pressure vessel code

  • gabriel
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Would practical courses like welding and machining be useful?

  • MissSilvy
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Calculating Angles and Pitch for Hypoid and Bevel Gears

  • mayasleiman
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Tripping the boundary layer why?

  • aerojunkie
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I need to build a hacky-sack launcher

  • advertisehere
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Energy storage in a spiral power spring

  • Stephni
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Pitting corrosion in spur gears

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Compressed air storage for energy production

  • mcuongdt1986
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Maximum Force on pipe Clamp it rotates or slips

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Spray Volume/liquid Displacement

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Vortex Tube Design: Info and Q&A

  • machinest
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How to calculate servo motor holding torque for a 325g underwater thruster

  • madacho
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Making T the Subject: V*T to the Power n = C

  • jamesd2008
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Undergraduate mechanical engineering thesis topic ideas

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How Do Contact Forces Alter the Speeds of Moving Bodies?

  • darkelf
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Can Alternative Technologies Overcome the Cost of Fuel in Vehicle Progression?

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Designing a Turbine and Compressor: Challenges and Considerations

  • sxe545
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How to build Line Following Robot

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Volumetric Efficiency: Can It Exceed 100%?

  • venik
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How to Define a Free Surface in 2D River Modeling Using Fluent and Gambit?

  • farhad_mech
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Mechanical design of an elevator

  • kautilya
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Linear and rotary movement of a shaft

  • harshith
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Does a spiral pulley offer mechanical advantage if wrapped once?

  • mathews4ever
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Reversible processes and carnot cycle

  • ahmedbadr
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Calculte max force that can be applied to a Beam flange?

  • em07189
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Venturi Flow Model: Calculating Air Flow w/ Differential Pressure

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Determine how pressure,temperature and volume change

  • ahmedbadr
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How to approach torsion in a thin-walled ring

  • dav2008
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Reference Material for Undergraduate Level Vibrations Courses

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Reducing the pipe dimension to a heating device

  • TSN79
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How much rake and trail should a bicycle front end design use?

  • Phrak
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My DIY Squirrel Cage Fan Fume Hood Project

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Calculate Savings with VFD on MUA Units

  • thebigjg
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Stress in a ring that is mounted on a solid shaft

  • ladil123
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Method To Exert a Downwards Force (Force created by screw threads?)

  • Kalus
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Is My Motor Sufficient for a 1500kg Sliding Gate?

  • ewomach
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Wanting to deign and possibly build a pneumatic can crusher.

  • CaspianTiger
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Solving Solar Heating System Problem

  • amish99
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Does heat exchanger effectiveness of 0.5 mean I need double the capacity?

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Pulsating Air Flow Equipment Selection

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What does the Fourier transformation do and how does it work?

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Line Tracking Robot: Solving Corrections Logic w/ 3 Sensors

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Single Shear Bolt application, strength info required

  • Cazman
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What is the correct grit hone for an air cylinder.

  • craigfperry
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How Does a Torque Converter Work in Automatic Transmissions?

  • robotlab
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Ideas suggestions for low speed cargo crawler

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What Are the Ideal Parameters for Designing a Pelton Wheel?

  • bigislander72
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Carbon fiber, kevlar pressure vessel design standards

  • kandelabr
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Hydrolics, Forces and flow rate.

  • GuitarWill88
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Building a Solar Collector: Linking Theory to Practice

  • grey
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Why are the reaction forces F/cos(fi) and Ftan(fi)?

  • skaboy607
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Calculating Wheel Loads in Dynamic and Static Conditions for Vehicle Analysis

  • the4thworld
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Counterflow double pipe heat exchanger

  • cabellos2
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Question for ME Graduates (or upper level students)

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Calculating recoil on 76mm artillery gun

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Specifications for Wind Generating Device

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How can we maximize energy storage for a pullback mechanism vehicle?

  • Gary1990
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Why does uniaxial plate bending assume ε_y=0 unlike beam bending?

  • jet10
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Solving a Robotic Transport Challenge: Stumped on Spherical Tyres

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Solving Heat Transfer Using COMSOL for Laser Drilling on Silicon

  • Skyeagle
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1D COMSOL Domain Implementation

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Car Suspension Manufacturing & Metals: Benefits & Drawbacks

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How to find stiffness using load versus defelection curve?

  • perfectz
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Where to find standard pipe shaft sizes online

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Applications of CAD, CAM, and CAE in automotive industries

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