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Seal friction needed for pneumatic/hydraulic piston

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Building a Hydraulic Robot Arm: Overcoming Syringe Length Limitations

  • stephenkohnle53
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What is the function of the return line in atomizers?

  • engnr_arsalan
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Mass flow rate calculation from velocity contour in pipe

  • ca2n
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Selection of a suitable engine for developing a hover bike.

  • Abdul Waheed
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Understanding Backpressure Effects on Flow Meter Calibration

  • ca2n
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Impact Energy Absorbed by a Material

  • ConnorM
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How to calculate torque and power for self starter and flywheel

  • Sudhakar Naidu
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Where to buy small quantities of Santovac-5 diffusion pump oil

  • eigenmax
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Calculate hydraulic motor for a Flywheel

  • Hans Heyde
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Stresses when a broom jams a spinning pulley

  • goonking
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Revolutionizing Gears with Programmable Smart Magnets

  • Scratch_light
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Castigaliano's Theorem for cantilever beam

  • hatchelhoff
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CFD Modeling of Flue Gas Pollution Dispersion

  • FluidStu
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Changing hydraulic pump cartridge can give me more torque?

  • LUIA HENRIQSON
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What is the Maximum Speed Limit for a Linear Shaft in Reciprocating Motion?

  • Sam Safe
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What causes the bending of this rod?

  • jerronimo3000
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Can low Resistance affect the torque output of an electrical motor

  • dajordanator
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Pressure loss to double wall pipe (ventilation)

  • longz
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Automotive Car Differential - spider gear

  • fog37
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How to Calculate Centrifugal Force on a Spinning Droplet?

  • Ameer Alhilo
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Automotive Construction of CVT Metal push belt

  • Yaksha
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How to Calculate Heat Transfer to Coolant in a Hybrid Lighting System?

  • craserv
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How do I calculate pump size for low pressure Aeroponics?

  • Matias
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Stronger or Stiffer? Tube vs Rod: Answers Here!

  • saravananrame
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Automotive Why does automatic emergency braking not work in all speeds?

  • techniker
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Calculating pump to cylinder pressure ratios

  • Dohcdelsol93
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Determining camshaft deceleration rate from Follower?

  • AmazingTrans
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The making of vintage precision instruments

  • DrDu
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Flow rate and velocity in parallel nozzles on a duct

  • Marki john
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Why most engine wear occurs during cold start up?

  • Wing
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Automotive Flutter noise at idle in Mini Cooper 1.5T with air conditioning on

  • DrChef
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Automotive Effect of machine weight on clutch Power/Energy

  • Shakeeb
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Sizing of a damping - spring - mass system

  • miou@mitsou
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Need some intuition for laminar flow in different geometries

  • Mangoes
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How much of pump power goes to heating the fluid?

  • RobertD
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Potential flows and Helmholtz decomposition

  • pigna
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Lift and Drag Force in ANSYS CFX

  • ray_riyanto
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Finding the surface RMS error using Zernike coefficients

  • Monsterboy
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The physics behind rifle barrel harmonics

  • tlwhite0311
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Water Level Sensors: Strange Behavior?

  • Kaly
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Non-Latex T-Shirt Slingshot for Robotics Team: Ideas for Band Alternatives

  • stephenkohnle53
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Pressure between a membrane and a solid body

  • wiyosaya
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Mechanical gyroscopes -- still used in airplanes?

  • Abokoj
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How Do Steam Plants Use Different Fuels?

  • Delta Force
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Coefficient of friction in regards to a clamp force

  • Nik_Barbour
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Ship Performance after Reboilering

  • Delta Force
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Prestressed concrete - tension in steel cables

  • fog37
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Automotive Motor Selection for Roller: Diameter 300mm, Length 1350mm, Inertia 3.95 KG.M

  • Sathish 07
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Roll Stability of static structures

  • antons
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Pressure gauge works on other lines but not on my compressor

  • Ahmed Mukhtar
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Piston Force Graphs: Manipulating Parameters in Combustion Pistons

  • physea
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Automotive How do weight distributing hitches shift load to the front axle?

  • burningbaal
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Drag force on a flat plat like a pendulum?

  • shady
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What is the Best Method for Calculating Rolling Resistance in Train Carriage?

  • SevenToFive
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Tapered vs. Straight Shaft Pulley I/F

  • Darth
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Underground pipe heat exchanger for home cooling in Texas

  • ThaSatelliteGuy
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Calculating Stresses for Metal Pole Design in Audio System Installation

  • Shady Artin
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What gearbox for manually rotating a 500kg engine assembly with a steering wheel?

  • Oje Navarroza
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Calculating Torque Resistance of a Split Ring Collar on a Shaft

  • daneran
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Understanding Resonance in Underdamped Forced Vibrations

  • HimanshuM2376
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Fluid mechanics - Finding force point of application

  • ual8658
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Cheap, suitable one way valve for aspirator vacuum pump?

  • joniverson
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Vacuum system connections question

  • joniverson
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Bearing support for vertical shaft

  • InterestedGuy
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Force of impact when dropping an object on the floor

  • fog37
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Why is Total Air Pressure Constant in the Study of Properties of Moist Air?

  • ajay jadaun
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Planetary gear ratio formula when carrier is fixed

  • mrhall1923
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Lift equation and pressure coming out of a tube?

  • sam_smk
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Answer for the Given on Steam Power Plant

  • PrinceAgustin
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Thickness of supporting ceilng required

  • jer300
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Cauchy Stress Components from Surface Force

  • Lewis S
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Does butterfly valve position relative to fan affect air flow in pipe system?

  • alpha754293
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Optimizing propeller configuration for drone hovering battery life

  • udib
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Beam Bending of a Linearly Varying Beam with 2 point loads

  • JasonL527
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Is free (or very cheap) FEA software really available and worth it?

  • Mech_Engineer
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Optimal configuration of holes in a tube

  • shantzzz
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How do tailless SWIFT gliders maintain longitudinal stability without tails?

  • Frenemy90210
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How much time would the Pressure of both tanks be Equal?

  • John Mendoza
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Make a very simple mechanical time delay?

  • supak111
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How do I calculate the output curve of a crank?

  • poe
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What Are the Criteria for Sizing Hydraulic Brake Lines?

  • jack action
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Hydrostatic pressure (infinitesimally small column of water)

  • Infinitybyzero
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How to determine max torque of threaded fitting

  • RobertsBrown
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How does a float lever maintain constant water level in a reservoir?

  • omka
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Automotive Equation of motion for a driving wheel

  • Payam30
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Calculating shear in a cantelever

  • Hadron
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Heat gain (or Loss) in steady state from Metal Rod

  • tiziana
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Factor of Safety and load/stress linearity

  • Mykhalo P
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(Just Released) New internal combustion engine technology

  • poe
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Small bearing or low-friction "pin" to assemble t-slot frame

  • jamesson
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Size expansion vessel to reduce pressure loss

  • RobinDeG
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Calculating the Torque that a fan would exert on a Hex shaft

  • Roger Dodd
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Pressure drop over double parallel system

  • Anansi
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How to make a rotating rod turn the axle of a small motor?

  • unseeingdog
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Effective Design Checking Techniques for Mechanical Engineers

  • scar3850
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Automotive What happens when a turbocharger hits it's stonewall point?

  • Lith
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Plate heat exchanger NTU method effectiveness

  • ram33
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Heat capacity of a heating element, in a flow of air

  • James125
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