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How to design self-reversing screws?
- RubenJ
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How do I calculate the power of a generator in terms of speed?
- Ballena Joseph
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Calculating torque at a distance from the lever
- Ross Hanna
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Derivation of the expression for exergy
- Mohankpvk
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Suitable net head for a hotel wastewater
- Ballena Joseph
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Planetary gearbox speed calculation - Simultaneous equations
- xxChrisxx
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How Can Scattered Data Impact Tool Performance Analysis?
- serbring
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Feedback on geometric dimensioning and tolerancing drawing
- Doc
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Turn the press of a button or pulling into a rotation?
- xuzigemov
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How to calculate effective pump flow-rate across a filter?
- Kaeros
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A Question of Impact and Damaged Components
- rg0ldberg
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Pontoon boat design: center of gravity, buoyancy, metacentric height
- Ripcord96
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Which fan/pipe combination is the most efficient?
- Mads C
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High friction material for 4 sq in polycarbonate parts under 100 psi shear
- DucemBarr
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How Does Increasing Vertical Distance Impact the Force Required to Lift Weights?
- cwhubb
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Calculating Max Pull for M30x2mm Threads on Chrome Rod
- Jimbo86
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Trim and roll (or heel) for submersibles
- ENGBIO
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Is Upgrading to a Wider Conveyor Belt Worth the Investment?
- Volantis92
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Why are my pipe heat loss calculations 1000s times too high?
- M1gu3l
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How can we calculate the power of a heating element?
- Bhisma Thapa
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Automotive Estimation of the damping coefficient of a suspenion
- serbring
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Why does a piston-crank system always turn the crank one way?
- HeavenFun
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Is My Servo Motor Calculated Correctly for My Gearbox?
- SevenToFive
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Partial Thermo analysis of a Crower engine
- Larry27183
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Dow Molykote 3402C: What is the Friction Factor (K)?
- rqjoe
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What is the weight increase of a dredge when hoisting it out of water?
- Crane operator
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Nitrogen pneumatic gas ram -- force to compress the piston in a cylinder
- Ted Farkas
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Regulatory bodies for manned submersibles in Canada
- ENGBIO
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Why can't we use the hydrostatic pressure gradient to do work?
- Mohankpvk
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Class 3 Lever: Non-perpendicular Effort
- Jimbo86
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How does the circle method help with leverage problems?
- Ted Farkas
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Cone drill bit with threads to drill in hard rock formations?
- ahmed11
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Bernoulli's Principle and Fans [split]
- T C
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How can trigonometry be used to simplify lever problems?
- Ted Farkas
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Leverage problem -- Need to calculate why my mechanism is breaking
- Ted Farkas
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Inertia tensor v.s pincipal axes moment of inertia
- kasoll
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Landing gear stuck at hinge: how does roll rotation affect wing-gear angle?
- Physicsterian
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What is the difference between water power and turbine power
- Ballena Joseph
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Pressure and a Manual Valve's Effect on Pressure
- Alex_d
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FBD of Two rods pinned together
- Master1022
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Automotive What is the compression force of a ring seated inside a cylinder
- SirMarx01
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Difference between phase and grain in a material
- Mohankpvk
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Automotive Automotive MAF sensor vs temperature
- Ryoko
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What is the force generated by a lever in a closed position?
- IanPibworth
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Can two bike radiators work in parallel if rotated 90 degrees?
- Shivam2112
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How to calculate the force on sliders?
- alik braz
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Propeller - Rearward flow of air
- JME23
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Does water pressure in FEA already account for weight at depth?
- Thomas Plank
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De Laval subsonic effect in US patent 2017/0316133 for ambient air energy harvesting
- Tomstudy
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Why Euler-Bernoulli beam theory does not work in this case?
- kravky
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Theories of failure and tensile testing
- Death eater
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Blower fitted with a convergent nozzle
- T C
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Why is a beam supported by two cables more stable than one?
- Tom Lever
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Automotive Calculating the angular acceleration of a swivel seat
- marellasunny
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RTG crane -- hydraulic motor and linkage design to turn these wheels
- Ridzuan
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Friction Loss for gravity fed rainwater downspouts/pipes?
- saxman2u
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Can a nail stretch when its head hits a block at relativistic speed?
- Suppaman
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PD pump (Rotary lobe pump) -- loud noise
- Theerapat
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Calculating Pressure from Air Displacement in Gasoline Tank
- Caleb_P
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Why is the flow rate reversing in this fuel delivery system?
- Kieran989
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Automotive Can two motors rotate about the same axis?
- ahmed11
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Increasing Diesel Engine Efficiency with Retractable Plates
- venkata
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Otto and Diesel Cycle: Heat Addition & Cutoff Ratios
- venkata
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Automotive Does self-ignition temperature of petrol and diesel depend on pressure?
- Mohankpvk
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Calculating velocity of a potato
- PhysicsFreak321
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The right reason for lift force on an aerofoil
- Mohankpvk
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How Can I Make My Winch Spool More Grippy for Lifting?
- Killavolt
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Thickness from Moment of Inertia
- Mechanical-909
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Max torque that can be applied to a threaded body
- aander3120
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Laminar flow in a tube, heat transfer coefficient-sanity check
- gpsimms
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Possible to calculate shear stress from this?
- EngChrisP
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Force Calculation -- Hydraulic cylinder and a rotating arm
- IanPibworth
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Automotive How to find weight load on each car tyre during cornering?
- Sprotz
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How to modulate the output of automotive injectors?
- FarmerTony
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Pressure upstream and downstream of a filter
- Aptx4869
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What factors should be considered when calculating motor size for a trolley?
- fakhar
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About Sonic Booms and Quiet Aircraft
- royp
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How to couple/connect a shaft to a disk?
- zuryum
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Will a 1" pipe assembly on plywood topple under 130 lb cantilever loads?
- cheebase
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Preserving Vehicle Transmission in Park
- gfd43tg
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To what degree does a hole in a tube make it weaker?
- Afiaki
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Automotive Single Setting Torque Wrench with extension calculations
- Spoolx
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Gas Turbine Engines: Expansion Away From Compressors
- Mohankpvk
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How to ventilate a room with no windows with one inline fan?
- attaboy_jhb
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Tensile Test of Slip Ring - Working out Tensile Strength
- Delvaurius
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Difference between flash point, fire point and self ignition temperatures
- Mohankpvk
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What gearing system is best for a TV lifting linear actuator?
- RobustZA
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How to measure pulsations in a tube?
- PhysicsBabexo7
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Does beam moment formula depend on cross-section dimensions?
- dahoa
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Understanding how to calculate power from force
- pslarsen
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Seal rotating parts/reduce friction (hand-tight thread)
- thereddevil
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Maximum load for 1/4" thick 12" wide A36 steel before deformation
- IndMechJeff
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Where could one buy an electromagnet for lifting 200kg
- ScurvySam234234
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Solar trough power plant for farm and greenhouses
- FarmerFred
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Automotive Good books to understand detonation in engines
- Mohankpvk
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Thermodynamics question: venting a tank of liquid oxygen
- msteves
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Why doesn't the continuity equation apply to a throttle valve?
- Mohankpvk
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Timoshenko, Strength of materials example solution
- akmkeng
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Compressible flow or incompressible flow equation?
- ulfaazmi
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