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Screw materials: AISI 316 vs A4-80
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Specified Torque Specs on Automotive Fasteners -- Required or just suggestions?
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Calculating drag force on a rotating body
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Gearbox with single input, double output (at different RPM)
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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
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What's the easiest way to solve this portal frame with braces?
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Fluid Mechanics - Need Help on a Water Pipeline Project
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Thermoelasticity problem with FEM in MATLAB
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Question about water pressure in IPX6 water intrusion testing of an enlosure
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Looking for help improving 3d printed sharpie-shooter design
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How to determine when compressible flow is choked?
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Surely there must be a telescoping rod, with air lock?
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Question about ice cube tray freezing first in the front
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Nusselt number is variable or constant for laminar fully developed pipe flow?
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How Do You Calculate Component Forces in an Automotive Drum Brake?
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How to determine deflection of a cantilevered plate with a radius?
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Design of a shell and tube heat exchanger
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Is there a pressure ratio limit for choked flow through a c-d nozzle?
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Maximum combustion chamber pressure and connector rod length
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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?
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Does temperature increase when water is boiling at 100C and pressure is increasing......?
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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?
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Is this a strong way to install a guy wire to support a telephone pole?
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Resolving Forces and Sizing Profiles in Structural Engineering
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Placing a pole with maximal radius subject to constraints
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Behavior of heat addition in a compressible flow
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How to spec a motor for this floor testing system?
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Reference source of study for welding clamping force calculation
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Any info on how the couple that found the safe while magnet fishing opened it?
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Stainless steel and chromium oxide layer
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Engineering explanation please (pipe welded to a wall)
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Converting intermittent linear motion into smooth rotary motion
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Gears - Hobbing gears with similar base pitch
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How to input and output work in a system at the same time?
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Gyroscopic effect in quadcopters
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Calculate RPM for Launching Ball by Flywheel
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Oxygen and hydrogen atoms on the diamond's surface
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On-demand steam engine idea
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Vacuum by condensation causes water to boil?
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Seals for a shaft with 24000 rpm
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Advice for building a Hilsch Vortex tube
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Reusability of nuts and tapped holes + Choosing the right material
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Building swing set. Doubting design
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Sprag clutch with disengagement
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Engineering and pressure related questions
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Electronic enclosure - Long screw holes
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Maximum Point Blank Range (MPBR) -- Help zeroing my rifle
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Seeking Guidance on Internal Floating Roof Tank Construction with Dome Roof
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Gear on fixed rack, force analysis
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Simplified Calculations for Nylon66 Composite Material Supporting Heavy Loads
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Limiting factor in design of small gas turbine w/ LOW self sustain speed
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Screws versus pins
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What is the difference between Griv-Ex and G10 material?
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Square tubing calculation
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Clarify power calculation
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A discontinuous refrigerant cycle
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Mechanical guy needs help with endothermic reaction and heat decomposition
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Help with Moments in Mechanism
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Evaluating Motor Specifications for a Conveyor
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Simple lever calculation- help with giving it notations
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Leverage, MOI, mass, distance from fulcrum for piano key mechanism
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Inverse Kinematics: Oscillators and Multi-Bar Links
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CNC Thread Mill Macro Programming
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How best to install a pressure sensor inside a pipe?
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Tuned mass damper does not reduce the amplitude of vibration?
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Table tempered glass edge break pattern
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Adjusting the pressure of helium flow to account for smaller tube
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Finite element method approximation
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Q: Fluid drainage along the outside of an inclined cylinder
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How to Know the thickness of SS304 plates for a high vacuum chamber?
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Calculating ballistics coefficient from two velocities
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Questions for the conceptual design of an avalanche protection structure
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Raising a farm windmill tower
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Difference between contact pattern and mounting distance for a pinion gear?
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Is the Power Calculation for Ring Roller Mechanics Conceptually Correct?
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Characteristic system curve for a two branch system
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Simulation of Cyclic Loading in Tensile Test
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Simulation of load-unload test in Abaqus
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Help me understand how bolts take less load than members
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How to select a pump for a venturi injector?
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How to Calculate Forces on Sun Wheels in a Planetary Gear System?
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How to maintain flowrate and pressure head in a pump?
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Effect of pressure due to change in diameter of pipe
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Simscape mechanics: angular acceleration not working
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How to level SS 304 sheet metal after perforation?
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Is it possible to use radial seals on non-circular cross sections?
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Flow discharge between 2 open water bodies connected by a concrete sluice
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Superheater - pressure and temperature distribution
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Advantages of a cone-shaped spring?
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Question about strengths of Aluminum/Titanium Tubing for a White Cane
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How can I get my prototype made?
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I have a hydrodynamic loss head question
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Rope Swing, starting in tension vs slack
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Estimating the force exerted by a water jet on a flat plate - Bernoulli vs Momentum Equation
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Loss of atoms from the surface of the material: How does it work?
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Stress in cylinders due to thermal expansion
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Automotive Loss of gaseous volume because of fuel combustion
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How Effective Are Electro-Muscle Fibers in Robotic Drives?
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