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New Waver clamps design wanted

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Automotive Why engine efficiency drops for light loads?

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Transient Heat transfer from water through pipe to ground

  • AtypicalEngineer
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Gas analysis system design issue

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Automotive Can Flying Hypercars be Modified to Fly?

  • shintashi
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Automotive Voltage check on car electrical components

  • Hondaboi1729
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Are Two Stroke Engines with Crosshead Bearings Reversible?

  • yudzark
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Awesome Robotic Mechsuit from S Korea

  • jedishrfu
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Delta wing vs standard plane (Paper model)

  • Frenemy90210
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Does this make sense? Trailer tilt methods....

  • Rx7man
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Active aero/active vortex generator?

  • Iceracer33
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Designing 3kW Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Blade

  • Akmalidin
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Thrust Bearings and Smooth Journal Bearings reaction moment?

  • AnotherParadox
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Cool Mobile Robot Project on Youtube

  • jedishrfu
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Difference in power transfer with gear location

  • deuel18
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Project ideas and rambling thoughts

  • MacLaddy
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Inviscid flows and the turbulent (eddy) viscosity

  • Joshua Pham
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Building metal rv cover with cantilever

  • waybux
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Maximum weight carried by a specific torque

  • Hugh Carstensen
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Automotive Two small fan motors one rotates faster when other is jammed

  • ahmed11
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Is There a Safer and More Efficient Way to Wind a Spool?

  • Alt-Bringer
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Vortex generators under your racecar question

  • Iceracer33
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Is the Combustion Chamber Volume for a Lamborghini Aventador Really That Small?

  • mastermechanic
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Critically damped cantilever beam

  • BeamStudent
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Plot the contact pressure vs axe x (mm) in ansys workbench

  • latifa
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Revolutionizing Renewable Energy: The Wave-Engine Innovation

  • Pust
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Calculate Horsepower & Torque w/ Break-In Stand for 68 Mustang

  • stryped
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Carbon fibre tube -- is round or oval stronger?

  • Karl christophersen
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Water heater - storage or tankless

  • Home Improvement
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High purity Germanium detector design related clarifications

  • Ashish GK
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Optimum Wheel Radius for a Terrestrial Robot

  • Christian Hoermann
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What Size Pipe is Needed for Optimal Air Flow in a Coen Duct Burner System?

  • Matt Wilson
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Dynamic Shear Force on a Brake Pad

  • mkematt96
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Electric motors vs internal combustion engines

  • Tabaristiio
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Pressure Decay from a Fixed Volume

  • PacificSnapper
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Automotive Calculating Rotational Torque of Prime Mover

  • Pinon1977
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Evanescent waves at change of cross section

  • snejburg
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Turning Multiple Fixed Axle Trailers

  • ABCs
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Phase of refrigerant crossing heat exchanger devices

  • masihsamara
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Calculate torque of an 80kg object rotating on its central axis

  • Yafimski
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Understanding Drive Shaft Stress and Deflection for Optimal Performance

  • roshan guthey
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Automotive Force that a car-mounted flag would produce

  • kspabo
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Uniaxial press: 1 ram vs 2 rams

  • Metallus
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Is There Such Thing as a Swing Set That's Too Tall?

  • Polychronopolous
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Calculating Your Boat Winch's Pulling Capacity for Non-Mathematicians

  • hownddog
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How Water Dept's of major metros maintain water pressure?

  • bluemoonKY
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The formula for Thick-Edge Orifice

  • pratamahrs1990
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Torque created around offset wheel

  • fleebell
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How much energy is stored in compressed air?

  • Jesolar
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Moment of inertia of a gearbox

  • SevenToFive
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Need help to find a steam compressor

  • pranj5
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Abaqus modeling of a complex material

  • drorfree
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Ability to backdrive a gear reducer

  • SevenToFive
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Tower Crane Tie Beam and Anchor Design: Maximum Force and Tension Calculation

  • Faisal90999
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Electrical hinge mechanism of some sort?

  • Artonn
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Can a 2500 Gallon Water Tank Sufficiently Cool a Condenser Without a Chiller?

  • LarrySputnik
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How to Calculate E-Balance for a Jet Ejector?

  • Daniel Barton
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Linear Actuator Sizing for Angular Force (BMX starting gate)

  • Bodine1187
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How Do I Calculate the Moment of Inertia for a Blower Shaft?

  • Zarathuztra
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How would rotary motion be converted to linear in robot?

  • Tabaristiio
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What is the Torque of My Machine's Shaft?

  • Saurav Anand
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Theoretical question about wingless flight with a flight pack

  • Tabaristiio
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Compressing a gas above compressor's discharge pressure

  • ttt
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One Ball fatigue failure at Deep Groove Ball bearing

  • Ranganath Nagaraju
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Calculating the Static Frictional Force of Nylon Bushings

  • Apple&Orange
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Automotive NVH Test for rubber mounts on firewall

  • BMW_Crashtester
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Automotive Designing a Poka-Yoke for Flat Marks on Rocker Arm Bearing

  • billy_boy
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Assuming everything else is equal between two or more cars....

  • Tabaristiio
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Calculating pressure release time

  • Tyler Bennett
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How to pump liquid from vacuum to atmosphere

  • ekajsemaneht
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Generate fluted pipe geometry in ANSYS

  • arehman1289
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What is the best material for low damping in a racing simulator pedal set?

  • hispanic panic
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Can hydraulic systems replace ebikes in power assisted cycle

  • Tabaristiio
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Automotive Help with finite heat release analysis

  • Jason Louison
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Plotting graph for acceleration against displacement

  • james123
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Simscape help -- make a beam tangent to eccentric axis

  • rakenishu
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Flight Mechanics - Maximum Cruise Altitude

  • MattRob
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Is specific heat capacity always ignored in Steady State

  • C989hris
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Is it possible to change the pitch of a voice?

  • Alejo
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Volumetric flow rate conversions

  • Daniel Sellers
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Tracking Encoder and Component Slippage

  • Muthana Gubran
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Automotive What is the advantage of having a dually truck vs. nondually?

  • bluemoonKY
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Can yaw motion still occur in a quadcopter in vacuum?

  • Kyle Broflovski
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Automotive Understanding CSM Displacement with Offset

  • Jason Louison
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Does Assembling a Steel Rod with a Universal Joint Affect Its Natural Frequency?

  • HARIKRISHNAN KR
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Learn About Pneumatic Airgun Actuation & Reloading

  • Asad Raza
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Material Thickness and Bolt Shear Strength

  • Daniel Louis
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Geometry genius designs 4-legged cafe table that never rocks

  • CWatters
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Calculate Pressure Drop through Expansion/Reduction for Gas

  • engjare
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How is power transmitted in an exoskeleton arm?

  • Tabaristiio
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Torque for rotating table

  • SevenToFive
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Partially closed pump discharge valve question

  • help_pls
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Automotive Symmetrical vs Asymmetrical AWD at high speeds

  • dracolnyte
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How much air is required to transfer liquid?

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