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Automotive Topology optimization of an engine's cylinder block
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Film Advance system research for DIY Camera
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Help! I need to find the speed of a conveyor to keep consistent gaps
  • wesman
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Is there a reason to use a woodruff key instead of a straight key?
  • Averagesupernova
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Bolt with spacers securing I-beam to floor
  • DaveC426913
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Stopping/blocking low-frequency rumble from pool heater
  • Hawthorne
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Help Designing a Brake Please
  • zolipend
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Torsion: Simple Question about a Pulley and an Axle
  • cahewstone
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How does pulling a string start a lawnmower or a weed eater?
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Can an axle connected to a wheel transmit momentum to the plate to which it is attached?
  • cahewstone
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Flowrate through an elliptical cross section of an oblique liquid jet
  • rdemyan
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Increase horsepower with steam in piston gasoline engine?
  • mikeholcombe
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Using a motor to spin two discs in opposite directions
  • tlhsgl
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Mechanisms for multiaxis vibration
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Automotive I need help with opening a large gas filter separator without a crane
  • medTayeb
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How can I avoid Foaming in my cutting fluid tank? (attached drawing for reference)
  • kunalv
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BLDC Motor - Finding out how many Pairs of Poles and the difference with PMSM
  • Vatech
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Spring-loaded trigger stays in position after impact
  • oogaboogaengineering
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Need to identify these car components
  • Alfa romeo junior
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Automotive Steering Force, Determining the Lever Arm
  • chevique
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Rated Current and Current in mini split Air Conditioner
  • Shervan360
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Calculating power dissipated in a heat exchanger
  • SgtSixpack
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Calculating how a car consumes energy (gasoline)
  • jgassmann
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Automotive Brake Ventilation Air Duct Design
  • RS3DG
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Mechanics 101 question - splicing line to chain
  • DBBPhysics
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Static pressure tubes vs pitot tubes
  • Chris J
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Centrifugal blower ringing?
  • Chris J
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Bell siphon: output rate multiple times higher than the input rate?..
  • Blokle
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How to Calculate Weight Transfer for Uprighting Vehicles with a Rotator Wrecker?
  • WreckerOp911
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What Washer to use? More options that you thought...
  • Tom.G
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Automotive Looking for a free pdf documentation about Swedish Volvo truck engineering
  • membreP
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[Cam Design] - Force and torque curves
  • magicfrog
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Struggling with one way roller mechanism
  • RJdoerr
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Weird Power Measurements with a Northern Lights Airforce Airdyne Cycle
  • rdbm
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A few points regarding my wind turbine
  • T C
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Modeling Air Compression Cylinder
  • JeroenM
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Robot and neural networks
  • zoltrix
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Can we increase force of an open nozzle that runs on compressed air ??
  • moneybitsingh
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Decay pressure testing
  • ddudexyz
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Good valve for really small flow rates?
  • jbeale
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Actuator Arm Drooping Under Load
  • Rehan Khan
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Vacuum pump design
  • achraf mecanique
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Honeycomb Structures and Resolution in FEM
  • ShashankanB
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Press fit curve analysis of two different bushings (force versus displacement)
  • florian245
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Help needed to solve a static analysis for the design of the Shaft for a Grinding Machine
  • fabianv19
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Struggling to design a mechanism for a tri-folding gate
  • fanofakirakurosawa
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A novel compound epicyclic gear system I can't seem to understand
  • Quantum of Solace
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Can Ancient Metalworking Techniques Enhance Modern Robotic Arm Design?
  • Jane Will
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Analyze this valve train Please
  • Unknowho
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Stiffened panel - moments of inertia
  • FEAnalyst
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What to Consider When Choosing a CNC Machine for Styrofoam Cutting?
  • kadir
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Direct Air Injection Engine Question
  • Unknowho
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Help me come up with a design
  • Lonklin
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How to calculate how much energy a pneumatic system would need?
  • fulano
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Generator start-up torque
  • royalbas001
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Carburetor cfm rating -- adding more air to intake manifold
  • Ranger Mike
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Objects with Constrained Rotation.
  • Hornbein
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Automotive How to calculate the inertia of a gearbox?
  • Sri_Vars
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Continuity principle in practice
  • David43214
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What happens to a pump's pressure gauge if you disconnect a hose line
  • David43214
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Which Pump Can Safely Circulate Fluid with Glass Spheres?
  • RCH
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Mechanical pump oil discharge through inlet
  • zaillian
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Technical drawing: reference dimensions
  • FranzS
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Finding the natural frequency of a pipe with two 90 degree bends
  • shreddinglicks
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What do you call this long angled gear piece?
  • Wo Wala Moiz
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Disc lifted by pressurized air in a vertical tube
  • jmex
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Trying to estimate the force required to roll form a strip of aluminum
  • Ryoko
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Polplan in STATICS (instantaneous center of rotation?)
  • arestes
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Heat transfer Rate
  • chocolatecat
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The apparent stability of a mechanical system: a bike on railroad tracks
  • Spinnor
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How to determine air velocity in open ended tube?
  • rad_controls
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Vortex tube recirculation
  • Wo Wala Moiz
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Is it important for a shaft key to be ground flat?
  • DTM
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What Software To Use For Using Pole Placement To Determine PID Gains?
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Software suggestions for simulating mechanical systems and mechanisms
  • MarcusThatsMe
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Dimensions for rotary shaft seals in vacuum applications
  • zaillian
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Design of a Laser beam polarization rotation apparatus
  • Tyler184
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Is a hydrostatic test required if head pressure is still up?
  • jack eystad
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Potential Energy Transfer from a large mass to accelerate a smaller mass upward
  • Fer137
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Industrial vacuums for moving beans from one place to another
  • ngalls81
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Heat Transfer with Recirculating Chiller Problem
  • kishanb_01
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How do we model water flow problems?
  • tp86
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How can it damage an air-conditioner to run it when it is cold outside?
  • sevensages
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How to predict the exit temperature of an air compressor?
  • MysticDream
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Resources for designing a planetary gearbox
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Heat cross exchanger
  • cowboyMorty
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Electric Heater vs Heat Pump: Efficiency for Heating Water to High Temperatures
  • ATT55
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Calculating the air venting flow rate needed during CIP of a tank
  • Remusco
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Calculate the forces acting on the Driven pulley (Centrifugal fan)
  • SikandarAfzal63
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How to find velocity of gas pump flowing into car tank
  • medale14
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What is "Relative Pressure" on a gas table?
  • Remusco
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Why does some steam in a sauna feel harsher than other steam?
  • DTQ
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When air pressure drops in a pipe due to friction losses, how do you calculate the associated temperature drop?
  • Remusco
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Mechanical problem -- Joining 2 metal strips with some sort of hinge
  • AbbyBaby
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Are rectangular block springs available in market?
  • k.udhay
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CNC: Deviations from the nominal thread profile due to tilting angle of the cutting insert?
  • FranzS
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Cylindrical dowel pins are not completely rounded
  • Juanda
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Stefan's law for radiation between body and surroundings
  • Remusco
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Designing a controller for cooling of heat exchangers
  • janithw
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Shock absorber forces
  • mrguyman
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