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Ball bearing cantilever system with maximal moment of inertia
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To circulate air, fan points in or fan points out?
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Machining does not achieve a surface roughness of Ra 0.1
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Gear Train Question from a Newbie
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Compress helium in a CO2 cartridge
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What is the significance of pitch controlled tapping in machining?
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Looking for ideas for a propane burner design
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Vacuum forming an ABS plastic sheet in Manufacturing industry
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Visualizing Small Navier Stokes Equation (∇•ū = 0)
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Modelling the tyre as a spring in a quarter car model (Part 2)
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Car stalls during idle after battery replacement, then fine after two days
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Honda’s Turpentine Engine
  • Mgt3
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How to begin in studying Mechanics and ME?
  • sebj
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Transitional Reynolds Number When Analysing Flow Through Orifices
  • WhiteWolf98
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Is the phase shift of a tuned mass damper ##\frac{\pi}{2}## or ##\pi##?
  • greypilgrim
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Pigging or Flushing a 15 km Non-Uniform Pipeline
  • Finchh
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Need advice on making my lamp! Turn dial into string pulled mechanism?
  • bigdoghustler
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Looking for suitable ball bearings
  • T C
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Reaction force to a flat and curved surface study
  • jmex
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How Can I Develop a Linear Gimbal System for Rifle Optics Stabilization?
  • Art_sh
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Heat Transfer Problem for Titanium Capsule
  • tokyo_driftR
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Vibrations, Modal Analysis and Mechanical Systems
  • Trying2Learn
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Random Vibration Fatigue Analysis
  • Syed7777777
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Forces applied on the bolts in the bike's hinge
  • kielbasa
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Fastened joint - Preload scatter - Bossard calculator
  • Juanda
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Looking for a low-latency force-based actuator - do they exist?
  • some bloke
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Maximizing Weight Capacity for Casters on Carpeted Surfaces
  • Quietrabbit
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Why are gas turbine engines not used in cars? Is what I think correct?
  • k.udhay
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Optimal roller distance for dynamometer
  • yawmid
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How do I use a turnbuckle effectively?
  • DaveC426913
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Effect of radius on transient heat xfer from pipe in semi-infinite soil
  • Sandi
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Internal Combustion engine - evolution regarding parasitics
  • Ranger Mike
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Performance of Waters' Wind Turbine in open spaces
  • T C
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Fluid mechanics & pump sizing (pseudo parallel pumps)
  • mw11
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Press Tonnage (No Flywheel)
  • Bob Warren
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Automotive What particular mechanic or engineer does this work?
  • cat-lessDude
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How to punch smaller holes than sheet thickness?
  • Tarun Tanwat
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How much should I adjust torque when using anti-seize?
  • YoshiMoshi
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How roller bearing (Timken) came about
  • Ranger Mike
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Cooling a sun room with A/C and windows
  • DaveC426913
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Automotive Ratchet based automatic transmission
  • askingask
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Why Did the Temperature Rise in a Sealed Automotive Cooling System?
  • tommd
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Maximum torque required to turn the wheel along the vertical axis
  • Urban Spoken
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Need help with determining thickness of steel bars
  • sinkjk
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How to calculate the gear ratio of this compound planetary gearset?
  • PlanetaryGearbox
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Sustainable building with earth, corrugated galvanised iron and rebars
  • Blokle
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Does such a valve exist? (water check valve)
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Tapping water from well by gravity -- calculations
  • chrblhjj
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Extruding a curved tube of pasta dough
  • JT Smith
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Heat Transfer Coefficient of a circular water duct of rectangular cross section
  • Galst
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How to Motorize a Stiff TV Mount with Swivel Arm Joints?
  • benskiskull
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Cylindrical roller thrust bearing: Inherent sliders?
  • Juanda
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Lubrication in fasteners and loss of preload
  • Juanda
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X and O in angular bearings and support span
  • Juanda
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Optimization of barrel length in pneumatic cannons
  • Juanda
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Minimizing drag in a system of pulleys
  • bobthebuilder
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Measuring g forces when stopping a car
  • Car guy
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New unusually powered "equatorial mount" tracking for solar panels
  • Brian in Victoria BC
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Airflow Restriction in Tobacco Smoking Pipe
  • Mookie27
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Possible feedback problems of a uni-directional torque
  • chazemz
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Calculating torque to turn/twist a trailer on wheels when it's not moving
  • Calvin Horst
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What Torque is Needed for a Hydraulic Motor to Lift a 10 lb Box 20 Feet?
  • dakotahm88
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Question on the 3D Kinematics equation.
  • kwnmanu94
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Screw materials: AISI 316 vs A4-80
  • Juanda
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Specified Torque Specs on Automotive Fasteners -- Required or just suggestions?
  • YoshiMoshi
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Calculating drag force on a rotating body
  • Massimo
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Gearbox with single input, double output (at different RPM)
  • kunalv
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Question: Wedge mechanical seal orientation in vacuum
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Measuring the water volume in a small tank with a manometer
  • wacNTN
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What's the easiest way to solve this portal frame with braces?
  • FEAnalyst
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Fluid Mechanics - Need Help on a Water Pipeline Project
  • ariley1663
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Thermoelasticity problem with FEM in MATLAB
  • Chakad
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Question about water pressure in IPX6 water intrusion testing of an enlosure
  • Gremian
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Looking for help improving 3d printed sharpie-shooter design
  • gmuir593
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Hydrogen-fueled Internal Combustion Engine (ICE)
  • Astronuc
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How to determine when compressible flow is choked?
  • MysticDream
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Surely there must be a telescoping rod, with air lock?
  • Jack D S
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Question about ice cube tray freezing first in the front
  • Ranger Mike
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Nusselt number is variable or constant for laminar fully developed pipe flow?
  • Maulik Chaudhary
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How Do You Calculate Component Forces in an Automotive Drum Brake?
  • AutoEngineers
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How to determine deflection of a cantilevered plate with a radius?
  • Chris3C
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Design of a shell and tube heat exchanger
  • Kyaw Zaw
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Is there a pressure ratio limit for choked flow through a c-d nozzle?
  • MysticDream
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Maximum combustion chamber pressure and connector rod length
  • Daveee91
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So what is the precise role that thickness plays in the resistance of a specimen to deformation or fracture during a collision?
  • Physicist-Writer
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Does temperature increase when water is boiling at 100C and pressure is increasing......?
  • Carbon273
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Will an Encoder Measure Correct Rotation with Shaft Movement in X and Y?
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What happens if a negative pressure gradient is applied to a diffuser?
  • ahog
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Is this a strong way to install a guy wire to support a telephone pole?
  • HRG
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Resolving Forces and Sizing Profiles in Structural Engineering
  • Gunter1977
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Placing a pole with maximal radius subject to constraints
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What is the complete derivation of the nonhomogeneous fluid flow rate equation?
  • fahadismath
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Automatic Window Opener - how does it work?
  • Heffalump
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Behavior of heat addition in a compressible flow
  • MysticDream
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How to spec a motor for this floor testing system?
  • ktheslabguru
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Reference source of study for welding clamping force calculation
  • Nitheeswar
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Any info on how the couple that found the safe while magnet fishing opened it?
  • berkeman
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Stainless steel and chromium oxide layer
  • PatrickP2
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Engineering explanation please (pipe welded to a wall)
  • Hauzen
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Converting intermittent linear motion into smooth rotary motion
  • Brooksbarnes
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