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Mechanical design -- What is the part shown in the drawing?

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How to measure the air pressure of a pipe without having water resistance

  • Pir4t3x
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What is the best type of locking mechanism for a watch band?

  • Tanhan
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Does Surface Preparation Affect Tensile Strength in ASTM E8 Tests?

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Do mecanum wheels move foward and sideways at the same rate?

  • onion3000
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Understanding torque -- impact guns and high torque drills

  • Sonic
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Understanding Dyno Readings -- is HP "real world" HP?

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What HP/torque Electric Motor to lift 1K lbs w/ sprokets

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Mass Flow Rate of Flue Gas in Sugar Industry

  • Mahesh H D
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Transferring Images to PCBs with Laser Prints: A Successful Test

  • camerart
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How to increase the stiffness of a simple structure

  • omarmorocci
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Based Sketches, Closed Profiles and Self-Intersection

  • mech-eng
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Calculate Torque Needed for 6" Auger on 17% Incline

  • SevenToFive
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Renewable Energy Concept - Stirling Engine Composting

  • Waggles
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Initial compression of a spring

  • vin300
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Dittus Boelter coefficient M range

  • Martin Beer
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How Missile ballast stability works?

  • Zahid
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Formula for bending a rod in the elastic range

  • pistorinoj
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Handling Rotational Degrees of Freedom in Coordinate Transformations

  • chinmay
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Simulation of Dynamic Charateristics

  • chinmay
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Minimum bending radius for a rod to stay elastic

  • pistorinoj
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Automotive Replacing a centrifugal clutch with an Electromagnetic clutch

  • CorvetteAB
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Automotive Conversion of CVT Scooter to Hybrid

  • CorvetteAB
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How to combine two lines in one in mechanical sketches

  • mech-eng
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How does adding material affect stress in FEA results?

  • Shumon Hossain
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Difference Between Musket and Rifle Trajectories?

  • Delta Force
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What is a surface body in mechanical sketches?

  • mech-eng
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Calculating Pulley Size for Band Saw Motor

  • Doug Mungham
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Saturated steam inside a vortex tube

  • pranj5
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How to fill fluid between concentric spheres and rotate inner sphere in Comsol

  • YURIIMkZERO
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Friction between nested tapered cylinders with liquid load

  • rob barbowski
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Adding a shape to make a disc spin?

  • Bill McGrath
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Are Moment Arm & Common Perpendicular Different?

  • Diptangshu
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How Much Torque is Required to Rotate a Drum at 6500 RPM?

  • PatPat
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Kinetics of System Particle/ Pulley system with masses and i

  • Shehry
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Problem finding the total kinetic energy of bicycle system

  • tranvannhancu
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How to design canal to reduce stream temperature?

  • satyadangin
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Microstepping, Gearing, and Torque

  • SquidPhysics
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How do I calculate thickness needed for a retaining wall?

  • joe17857
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How do the principles of physics apply to building styrofoam planes?

  • Geno
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Temperature on the outer surface of insulation

  • anolan23
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Lowe's Hardware Employees Testing Exoskeletons to Aid Lifting

  • berkeman
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Hot water leak rate with 100 psi and 10-degree temperature drop

  • Mackay Scanland
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External Pressure and Deformation of Cylindrical Tubes with Nylon Material

  • Jehanzeb
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How Much Weight Can a 45-Degree Square Steel Tube Structure Support?

  • pHartless
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Torsion in a shaft that is hollow then solid

  • pressurised
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Calculating force and impact geometry for axe blade experiments

  • Schwarzenberger
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APDL - Transient Structural - Exporting stresses over time

  • Abdullah Kacar
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Should I avoid using high ratio spur gears?

  • Jarfi
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The principle and mathematics behind Klein's construction?

  • Sanchayan Ghosh
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Automotive Exhaust Gas Pressure/Blowdown Calculations

  • Jason Louison
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Crush weight for aluminum ladder rails

  • xpnstos
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Find Weight at Mounting Point of Bar w/ Distance

  • Rodney D
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Possible Air Conditioning System?

  • mechlite
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How does evaporator size affect refrigerant superheat in HVAC systems?

  • stryped
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Introducing ANSYS SpaceClaim: The Ultimate CAD Neutral Tool

  • mech-eng
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Impact loading for a lowered object

  • Bucko1
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Electric skateboard motor and gear sizing for 100kg load at 1.1m/s

  • Kevj999
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Acceleration Data Analysis Guidance for MSc

  • Khym France
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Thermal expansion of each dimension of a solid

  • hoomanya
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How do the 3D printed fingers work?

  • Tyler Scofield
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Fluid mechanics and English help

  • mech-eng
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Why do heavier people go further on a zipline?

  • pkc111
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Coupled Thermal-structural analysis in ANSYS Workbench

  • davidfam
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Mechanics of a Box for Dog Sport

  • Pugless101
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How Can 3D Printing Revolutionize Manufacturing Costs?

  • BillTre
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How Do You Calculate Torque Around Point D in a Lever Setup?

  • BatsDude
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Sizing a motor and gearbox for a 76cm soil trommel at 20-25 rpm

  • Paul Glavey
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How can a static shock load requirement be defined?

  • SevenToFive
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Steam generation thermodynamics

  • Ali Ahmad
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Framework Problem: Constructing Engine Mount for Airplane

  • MECHIS
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Reynolds Transport Theorem and Volume calculation

  • mech-eng
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Having trouble with a heat sink in ANSYS NLT

  • Kevin Halagan
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Finding CFM in dust collection system workspace

  • MiketheMuman
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Acceleration field, velocity field, pressure field

  • mech-eng
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How to measure the moment of inertia of a motor's rotor?

  • bbq_build
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Assumption of local thermodynamic equilibrium in a fluid

  • Shivam Sinha
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Nusselt number for a developing turbulent flow in the entrance region

  • Fady Alphons
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Identifying Stresses in Structural Design

  • BurningUrge
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Building a low-load tensile testing machine from extrusions

  • christyu
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Conservation of mass relation for a closed system

  • mech-eng
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Understanding Average Specific Heats in Fluid Mechanics Fundamentals

  • mech-eng
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Simple compressible system and flow system

  • mech-eng
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What does adjusting to the thermal reservoir mean in an isothermal process?

  • mech-eng
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How does compression cool water in a household water cooler?

  • olgkd123
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What is the best way to determine the distributed load for a cargo shelf?

  • kleptomaniac
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How can i find energy loss from acceleration vs time graph

  • hemakorn
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Specific volumes of a saturated substance due to pressure

  • mech-eng
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Automotive How can torques be summed algebrally?

  • mastermechanic
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How to analyse a rigid frame on wheels?

  • kleptomaniac
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Changing my wood chipper's engine

  • Skylight100
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Can the Drag Equation Be Revised to Account for Velocity Differences?

  • Jacob91
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A very strange curve on P-V diagram

  • mech-eng
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Welding a 12x12x72 inch steel vacuum chamber

  • olgkd123
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Nonlinear contact convergence problem in ANSYS Workbench?

  • tl_ccc
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Gas Compression in a Closed System: Non-Linear vs. Horizontal P-V Diagrams

  • mech-eng
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Importing material properties in ANSYS ACP

  • muhammad ahmad
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Automotive Optimizing intake airflow for a 56x47 inline 4 engine rebuild

  • puxley
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Can a Cantilever Beam with a 20 lb Mass Hold Up without Failing?

  • NewEngineer
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