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Detecting Washing Machine Drum Out Of Balance Limits

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How Is Deflection Calculated for a Partially Supported Circular Lid?

  • Rajashekar
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Centrifugal Impeller and blade shapes

  • Yam
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Finding enthalpy at nozzle throat given total enthalpy and inlet conditions

  • Naav_Gothalla
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Design and Fabrication of a scaled down deLaval nozzle.

  • MdAsher
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Stress tensor for non-Newtonian fluid

  • ccrook
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Is the Moody Chart valid for non-Newtonian fluids?

  • ccrook
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Blasius Solution for Boundary Layer

  • ccrook
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What is the Optimum Thickness for a Thermal Container Design?

  • joaquinjbs
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Using conservation of angular momentum as a braking system

  • dicvt
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How high can a box with springs cushion a 2-ton drop for an 88kg person?

  • roboemperor
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Build Your Own Aluminum Shredder on a Budget

  • Acornstu
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How to Calculate Nut Velocity After Tensile Test Failure?

  • BruceD
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How to investigate pulleys and belt

  • Raine Hooke
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Thermal efficiency of reciprocating engines

  • nate9519
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Coaxial Rotor UAV Helicopter Hover Performance

  • Usamah Abdul Latif
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Relationship of bulk modulus and fractional volume change

  • ralden
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Educational Brake Caliper - Suggestions?

  • chriswh86
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Can a Wi-Fi Car Diagnostic Tool Detect Problems Through Sound?

  • 3301
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Steel top hat channel thickness for 250-500kg motorcycle lift

  • Gaza365
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Can Gravity Influence the Mechanics of an Analog Clock Design?

  • AndroidX7
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Unexpected changing of the geometry in ANSYS Workbench

  • Vaggelis
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I need to learn about *real* gears

  • ChrisJA
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Water flow through a perforated plate

  • CaroCande
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Force required for cutting process

  • Ali Durrani
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Preferential bending loading direction of a beam

  • sfensphan
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How to show how speed varies with incline, and with Gear ratio

  • larry1990
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Height to time equation: water cylinder with pinhole

  • Jonathan Densil
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Atlas, next gen robot from Boston Dynamics

  • Greg Bernhardt
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How to Build a Tennis Ball Launcher for Science Games Day?

  • Osiris_
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Build Zip Line with Steel Tubing: 500lb Load Bearing

  • vagajdbond
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Calculating bending stress for pipes

  • roboemperor
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What is the force on the trailer wall

  • Pratap Lingam
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Threaded Bolts in Aluminium - Strength Info Needed

  • christyu
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Why should an ideal fluid be incompressible?

  • KingDaniel
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Working out the angular acceleration of a flywheel

  • sierra52
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Gibbs free energy -- mathematical expression

  • rajendra123
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Motor size for 10-inch drum sander with MDF discs

  • jmhockey23
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Cooling pool water for three compressors on a budget

  • YasmineBS
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Motor Torque Calculation for Amusement Ride

  • skella
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Rotor blade thrust - torque and angular velocity

  • ChromeBit
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Intercooler effects on pressure and torque in a supercharged BMW Z3

  • ZetaTre
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Can an Air Compressor Run on 12v and Deliver 150psi Continuously?

  • Siameto
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Automotive How is Torque Measured in Car Specifications?

  • Adamuss
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Combustion temperature and pressure

  • yousaf nasir
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Increase a gas engine's RPM to drive a water pump

  • RTE
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Automotive How do Center differentials work

  • Heijneker
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How to calculate (mechanical) clutch forces

  • kanibal
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Do stepper motor steps require 20,000 gear teeth for precision?

  • Justin Boga
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Clutch torque calculation: getting 83.4 Nm with metric, 192 Nm with imperial

  • confused2016
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Superposition of Moments of Inertia about Different CGs

  • Enginerd
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Why are stiff springs more responsive?

  • Adam Holland
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Calculate Propeller RPM from Motor No Load RPM

  • Metalheadman
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How to find the natural frequency in ansys apdl

  • dhirendra pandey
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Air Pressure Equalization Between 2 Vessels

  • tm1274
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Thermal B.L Vs Viscous B.L

  • Crazy Pirate
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How to reduce vibration of a fixed beam?

  • theone
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The Chebyshev optimality criterion in four bar link?

  • kundan jha
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Power calculation for Ribbon blender for dry cement mixing?

  • Bhavik Panchal
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How to Calculate Stress in an Accelerating Deformable Body?

  • TryingToThink
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What is the special steel material ERCO used for in spring manufacturing?

  • Tpatel56
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Metal bar/tube strength by length and thickness.

  • Metalheadman
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How to calculate PSI created in an internal combustion engine

  • Brian James
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Engineering Stress increases after yield stress?

  • Seth Vogt
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Calculate the time needed to fill a compressor

  • Kostis82
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What is the driving resistance force?

  • Payam30
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Thermodynamics phase change question

  • nate9519
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One way valve is there a kind like this?

  • marokay
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Where should I position the support bar on a swinging clothing rack?

  • DaveC426913
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Can you deploy a parachute at 30,000 feet?

  • majid hussain
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How to Design the Complex Shapes of a Rotary Engine

  • LtIvan
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Air rifle max velocity vs. tank pressure

  • Mark44
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Can a Bladeless Turbine Create Lift through Rotational Air Drag?

  • blainiac
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Rotator Drum Balancing: Adding Oil to Improve Balance?

  • Carrollwelding
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Automotive Hydroboost on clutch line (car)

  • icor1031
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Friction Hinge Design: Calculating Bolt Preload and Torque

  • CarlLyon09
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Energy dissipation when a lift stops

  • Majorana
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Looking to build a backyard windmill

  • BobJ
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Converting angular momentum to linear momentum equivalence

  • Sirsh
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Safe flight capsule for commercial airliners

  • majid hussain
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Local compliance with Castigliano's theorem

  • swahlgren
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Calculating suspension requirements for a cart?

  • beany_bot
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Basic hydraulic pump work-energy relationship

  • Ignis24
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Linear force > Angular torque > Mechanical advantage

  • Travis McWilliams
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Resources on Gear Cutting Machines

  • enJayneering
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Blocked pipe = increased air velocity?

  • radonbc
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Calculation on a water cooled compressor

  • mariuog
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Calculating the force in suspension as a car hits the brakes

  • Ben Reade
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Some questions on heat transfer

  • MexChemE
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Are there generators that run at 20-50 RPM?

  • ual8658
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What bolts and fasteners work best for slider crank mechanism joints?

  • Guest312
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Centrifugal Compressor Performance Curve

  • Rahul Mohan P
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Designing a Pneumatic Filling Machine

  • siansoft
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Propellers on an RC Quadcopter?

  • Metals
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