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Building a globe-valved IC engine prototype: any major pitfalls?
- wolram
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How to Launch a 15-Pound UAV: Air Pressure or Bungee?
- nomorevishnu
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Time for water to freeze in a pipe
- Krisk
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What Are Common Failure Modes of Strain Gauges and How Can They Be Induced?
- Bellis
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Calculating Terminal Velocity in Turbulent Flow for a Spherical Object
- zoki85
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Hydro carbon fuel - H2 % value of total heat
- walterjw
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Calculating Stress Along a Cantilever Beam
- X1088LoD
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What Went Wrong with My Straight Line Mechanism Design?
- snowJT
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Oil Hydraulic manual download link
- P.Ramesh
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Why Are My Heat Exchanger Test Results Different?
- almarzooq
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Insulation thickness calculation
- mrinalkantibhaduri
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What is the Height of Each Fluid in the U-Tube Arm with Oil-to-Water Ratio of 4?
- wub1098
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Determine the capacity of a boiler
- shakal_4_ever
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Heat recovery from car radiator.
- questionsarewis
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Calculating Tension Life of a Spring
- araanandv2
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Ideas for SR-71 Blackbird Review Paper
- piano_girl
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Need engineering assistance on a new concept product
- idthree
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Small Claims Case - Coolant Flush/Water Pressure Question
- sky1tech
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Energy available to a wind turbine
- pgunderson
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Car Brake Performance Using Disc-Brake Variations
- heiroglif
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Aero engine without gas turbine
- P.Ramesh
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What Are the Best Textbooks for Learning About Supersonic Flight Engineering?
- zoki85
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Whirlpool action in a tank created by inlet water
- qlusa
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Designing a 1.2 m aluminum propeller for powered paragliders
- Sirmisko
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Tuning a 1994 Mercedes 310D to run on vegetable oil with sensor logging
- DarrenUK
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Heat Loss in a Hot Water Pipe System
- Ouabache
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Car out of legos using the LEGO Mindstorms and gears
- alex568
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Need FORTRAN Code for 3D Aerodynamic Matrices Calculation?
- traianus
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Designing a Motorized Chalk Eraser to Reduce Effort
- titus_polo
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General Cantilever Equations
- X1088LoD
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Calculating cubic ft/ min and PSI
- johnnyShopOwner
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How do I find the angle of lap and belt tension in a two-pulley belt drive?
- loz3002
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Find a Book for ProE Woldfire 2.0
- Rocket_guy
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Propeller thrust equation discrepancy with online calculators
- nickpark83
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Toy Propeller Efficiency: Range of Efficiencies
- sphoenixee
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Capture waste heat from diesel electric generators
- paulo
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Would unlimited engine revs or gears give infinite top speed?
- fedorfan
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Multichannel Square Tube Hydraulic Diameter
- chupacabras
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How do distributed loads affect angled connecting rod systems?
- stinlin
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Consequences of pressure on helix
- Roger900
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Finding the Best Prop Setup for Bowfishing Boats
- justinduke
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Designing an Amphibian Pick Up: Hull Fabrication Info
- titus_polo
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How to Design Suspension Geometry for a Front Wheel Driven Trike?
- wolram
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How does a wind turbine in a tunnel affect the volume flow rate?
- sgc7of7
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Need Solutions Manual for Mechanics of Materials
- M98Ranger
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What temperature to anneal an 8mm allen key for machining?
- Shedfull
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What Are the Differences Between Bolts, Screws, and Hi-Lok Fasteners?
- stan19
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Designing folding legs for a bunk bed .
- cabellos
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Force exerted onto the pipe by a shrunk fit ring
- sunshine76
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A few questions about helicopters
- MadSimon
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Finding Major and Minor Strain from Mohr Circle of Stress
- mjocalla
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Sea-Launch Anomaly: What Happened?
- D H
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How does rod ratio affect piston side thrust on cylinder walls?
- 5.0stang
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At what airspeed can braking parachutes safely deploy?
- Sojourner01
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Im a physics student and was told that a mechanical engineer
- australianschoolkid
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Particle Dynamics and Time Problem
- s4orce
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Particle acceleration and velocity Problem
- s4orce
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Drivetrain mass increase skews torque output?
- Sleeper
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Energy and rotational speed of a falling weight unwinding from a driveshaft
- silverfish
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Flagpole Vortex: Wave Motion Causes Flag Flutter
- verdigris
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How to derive continuity eqn. in polar form?
- loveblade
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What is the direction of the buoyancy force?
- harvhk852
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Calculating strain and torque limits in a hollow steel shaft with strain gages
- boohillie
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How Does Fluid Dynamics Complicate Airplane Toilet Design?
- AlephZero
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What is the role of control volume in the Navier-Stokes equations?
- verdigris
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Improving Noise Reduction in Airbus Engine Nacelles
- verdigris
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Classification of corrosion, (Aviation Industry)
- stan19
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Product engineering improvements for a Dewalt impact driver
- Cyrus
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Do Aircraft and Watercraft Create Equal Intensity Compression Waves?
- jackx47
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Convert 40 inches of water to PSI
- wub1098
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Understanding Strain Invariants in Strength of Materials
- CPP
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Gas flowing quickly over the surface of an aircraft wing
- verdigris
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What is the pressure on Pike's Peak above Denver, CO?
- enviroengnhopeful
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Every rotational motion have torque?
- MechaMZ
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Calculating Power and Efficiency for a Two-Wheel-Drive Bicycle Design
- Ascetic Anchorite
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Determining Shear Stress on Bolts
- stinlin
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How to Calculate the Moment of Inertia for an IC Engine?
- sandy3981
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I need a pump that will shoot LOTS of water extremely far
- Erazman
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Moving mesh CFD in OpenFOAM
- zeta
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Understanding Volumetric Efficiency and Beyond 100%
- 5.0stang
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Can MIT's GUI Missile Flyout simulate a realistic ballistic missile launch?
- sanman
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What size driven pulley for 200 rpm from an 8.5 inch pulley at 340 rpm?
- Janice12
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How does octane number affect EGT readings in a 2-stroke engine?
- Detonator
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Can it hurt an engine's performance by having to big of a throttle body?
- 5.0stang
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Steamline, Pathline, Streakline
- harvhk852
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Building a small jet engine from spare parts
- Shawnzyoo
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Structural failure of steel due to heat?
- Chaos' lil bro Order
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What Is the Minimum Temperature for Safe Commercial Flight Takeoff?
- scott_alexsk
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I'm trying to recall my M.E. materials science class
- eehiram
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Aerodynamic stabilization of satellites
- giber
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How to design a car model workin on chem. energy?
- mnz_zope
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Servo-controlled, two-way pneumatic pump?
- bzliu94
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Finding bending moment and torque from a 45° rosette strain gauge on a shaft
- arghstar
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Engineering Primers for Non-Engineer
- TexanJohn
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Isothermal or adiabatic process
- moust
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Is a Fully Adiabatic Process Truly Possible?
- moust
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Buran Program: USSR's Unfortunate Cold War Spacecraft
- Clausius2
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Can a process be both adiabatic and isothermal?
- moust
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Water speed through a heating system
- TSN79
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Compact energy storage mechanisms for hatch/lid opening against gravity
- achopra1
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