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Will a larger diameter aluminum tube reduce flex in marquee poles?

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I'm building a house (and infrastructure) in Ecuador

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Transient heat transfer in a cylinder with internal heating

  • Bruce
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Thermodynamic possiblity for outlet temperatures of heat exchanger

  • dreamz
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Will Water Levels Equalize in Two Connected Tanks Despite Pipe Friction?

  • Sameh soliman
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Pressure setpoints for a set of pumps (Affininity Laws)

  • AbdullahS
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Why don't ships use aircraft turboprops for propulsion?

  • Anand Sivaram
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How does the release angle of a catapult affect the object's velocity?

  • Generally Confused
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Automotive Car on Fire - Causes and Possible Methods of Prevention

  • Wrichik Basu
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How Can Innovative Wheelchairs and Mobility Solutions Meet Client Needs?

  • Mohammed Alhayek9
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Power and torque calculations for 9 bar compressed air engine

  • karan_s
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Drag coefficent of a person on a slide

  • Uricucu
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Torque dynamics: Slotted screwdriver head

  • cube137
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How does suction force vary with distance from the surface?

  • stanley650586031
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Automotive Mechanism to drive a wheel from an internal motor allowing suspension?

  • some bloke
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Polytropic Process equation [Thermodynamics]

  • nichmetsa
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Could somebody please explain the vapor compression cycle?

  • Carbon273
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Making electricity by means of my old bike

  • Renewable_energyguy
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Nondimensionalizing and what to do

  • member 428835
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Specifying a hydraulic pump and motor for a class project

  • koii123
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Selecting a vacuum pump to lift a 500 gram object with one suction cup

  • knhari14
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Class Project: Tennis Ball Launcher

  • blixel
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Why isn't the Pneumatic Tyre used for suspension?

  • some bloke
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What is the governing equation of a spring with sinusoidal excitation?

  • k.udhay
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Where Is the Opposite Force on a Pipe with Mass Flow?

  • Nic sign
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When does Bernoulli's equation apply to all points in a fluid?

  • fog37
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Relationship between speed and flow

  • Uricucu
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Where Does Viscous Pressure Enter the Pressure Balance?

  • member 428835
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Tennis Ball Launcher: Build a Mechanical Launcher

  • aga78
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How much torque do I need to move a 50lb object?

  • Robinson26
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How can I calculate the efficiency of my microwave oven for steam production?

  • Charles Bagwell
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Safety and the increasing automation of cars

  • Guineafowl
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Piping and Instrumentation Diagram (Question)

  • redux
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How can we find the missing equation for solving spatial collisions of bodies?

  • Trying2Learn
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How to convert pressure (Bar) to flow rate (L/min)?

  • avishay
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Estimation of the Power Output of a steam turbine

  • Chandrakanth_balusa
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How is an object's weight distributed among the fours legs of a table?

  • Anie Nancu
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Solving first law thermodynamics problems in closed and open systems

  • civilengoo
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How can we reduce the pressure in a pipe?

  • cyentist
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For a throttling valve, why is it that temperature remains the same?

  • Carbon273
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Building a 0.5m onager to throw tennis balls: rope, sling, and arm design

  • TofuBoy
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Load applied at an angle -- how much force before breaking this die?

  • Manganese
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Stepper torque calculation to drive a solid cylinder

  • MOTASH
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Deflection of Prismatic Beam With Fixed Ends and Single Load

  • Satonam
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Automotive Braking with one caliper out of four

  • billiards_guy
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Calculate the Force Required for a Wave Generator in a Water Flume

  • ThiessenTillage
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Problem With a Slewing Bearing Crane

  • Herbid
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'Thought Provoking' Request: UnOptimal ContinuumMechanics Terminology?

  • Questionable Thought
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Arrow passing through a moving target -- What is the final velocity?

  • Warbow
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How does a walk-in freezer with R-22 get temperatures as low as -15F?

  • fourthindiana
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How Have Historical Cooling Methods Inspired Modern Techniques?

  • JohnAna
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Force applied to lever arm to twist foot pound torque

  • Tony Singh
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How to convert Insulation Loss (in Watts/meter) to kWh energy savings per year?

  • laurenrose01
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How do I compare indoor and outdoor relative humidity levels?

  • needsleep
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Convert from a weighted system to a plate and bolt system

  • plastixman
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Automotive Dual mass flywheel clutch - How does it make a difference?

  • k.udhay
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Automotive Why don't motorcycle clutches need torsional damper springs?

  • k.udhay
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Reciprocating Piston Pump Air/N2 SCFM Flow

  • Harveylanc
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Sophisticated Experiment (Thermal Conductivity of Housing Materials)

  • Nandomech
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Hermetic seals of metal housings with over-molded plastic?

  • spiri
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Is there an AC Mains powered tire inflator? -- Updated

  • berkeman
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Impact force in the Charpy test

  • FEAnalyst
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Water jet strikes a plate and slows down due to frictional forces?

  • stanley650586031
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Automotive Does adding accessories to the front of a vehicle affect its payload capacity?

  • Ash81
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Automotive Honda EU generator -- which is the best oil temperature range rating?

  • Abimotek
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Automotive Front Wheel Drive or Rear Wheel Drive has higher maximum slip ratio?

  • calvinyeh
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How much torque would be on the motor?

  • Temeraire
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How to Derive Non-Linear Behaviour in Simpack's Force Element F042?

  • Zhenyeee
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Automotive Calculating geometry for single pivot arm

  • trial_
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Automotive Bump Steer and how to correct it...?

  • BigGruntaRacing
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Flow through piping (a highly viscous additive)

  • Mudabbir
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How to Calculate 3D Printed Gear Tooth Strength?

  • Aciek
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Critical Reynolds number and characteristic length

  • ntdiemai
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What is the intuitive meaning of a polytropic process?

  • Carbon273
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Compressed Air Engine Calculations

  • karan_s
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How to Calculate Input Torque for a Hydraulic Oscillating Ram Pump?

  • Don Bori
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What is the difference between flow energy and boundary work?

  • Carbon273
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Why is air in atmospheric pressure and room temperature a gas?

  • Carbon273
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How does specific volume play its role in the phase diagram?

  • Carbon273
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How to manufacture this nozzle?

  • s4thishkmr
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Castigliano's method for the deflection of a cantilevered beam

  • FEAnalyst
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Internal and external pressures

  • DeanE123
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Pump rotation to provide pressure or volume flow

  • robax25
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Automotive How Can I Calculate the Minimum Value of n2 in Tractor Power Transmission?

  • robax25
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I am having a problem with vortices

  • Stanthe Man
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How do raked wingtips reduce induced drag?

  • Change in pressure
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Torque required to tilt 1200 kg mass?

  • Mohit Patil
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Automotive Tametire tire model by Michelin

  • vr-marco
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Capture and re-use the heat generated from Air Compression

  • Walker C
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Automotive Determining the Brake Caliper Force for a Car

  • Miss Mechy
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Finding shaft twist angle between two points

  • Omg999
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Cantilevered OSB Bending in the Wind

  • Artbuc
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How can I predict the flow rate for a real life water hose?

  • Roy S Ramirez
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