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Reasoning behind hub-centric and lug-centric wheels ?

  • jim hardy
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Air Cannon School Project Firing Paper Projectile

  • Iant720
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Identifying a threaded nut for syringe needle connection

  • Heng Li
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Use of draft tube in Francis turbine to increase output

  • the_kool_guy
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Automotive Selecting electric motors once power requirements are calculated

  • darthapple35
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Electrical Efficiency Calculations HVAC

  • Aaron88
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Why can't commercial aircraft use vertical take-off and landing?

  • majid hussain
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Calculating Maximum Pressure for T6 Aluminium Cylinder

  • perky416
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Why did my engine suddenly blow up?

  • jfoldbar
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ANSYS 14.5 Workbench Geometry and Mesh editor problem

  • Joydeep Munshi
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Building a tension tester with stepper motors and load cells

  • christyu
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Chassis material selection, lighter grades of MS

  • CorvetteAB
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How to check the plate with concentrated force?

  • atlas_2010
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Transforming Motion In Opposite Directions

  • Sirsh
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Automotive Creating Negative Pressure Underneath Car to Prevent Lift

  • CarGuy2002
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How can I properly add plies to a composite leaf spring in ANSYS APDL?

  • salmansl
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Pollution Control: Mach 1+ Exhaust Gas Pollution Checking

  • majid hussain
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Time required for recovery from compression

  • Ngineer
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Control flowrate or pressure? Faucet and garden hose conundrum

  • push33n
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Answer Torque Question: Find Allowable Shear Stress

  • coolguy16
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Need to compress air given rotary motion input

  • CosmosK
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Can I Modify My Leaf Springs for Increased Truck Payload Capacity?

  • AM1990
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Passive Hydraulic System to Transmit Mechanical Power

  • ElectricJosh
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How to check this type of weld group?

  • atlas_2010
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Design Aircraft: Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA

  • Normandxavier
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Design\modeling advice for unorthodox structuretructure

  • been jaming
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Can Nitro Fuels Boost Two Stroke Power for Formula 1 Go Karting?

  • Mike Stendor
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Where to place a fan along a duct?

  • TSN79
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Pulley System for Children's Playground

  • jgillard1986
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Basic Hydraulic Power System Diagram for Fan Movement

  • Tan Guo Zheng
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Would a gun with this barrel shape generate less recoil?

  • y2jayy
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Is streamlining good for aircraft design?

  • Normandxavier
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Why does it keep getting harder to break a pencil in 2?

  • mohamadh95
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How can I get the force from the bending stress

  • atlas_2010
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Thermodynamics: ΔE vs ΔU - Uncover the Difference

  • thinkcentre12
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Shaft and Pin Size of Slider Crank Mechanism

  • Phil78
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Air conditioner compressor capacity control in VRF systems

  • srinaath
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Automotive Seeking quote for construction of motorized camera car

  • ebsseattle
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How to figure the stress on a pulling truck frame?

  • Peaches23d
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Weak Ductile Materials: Easily Broken by Traction?

  • serbring
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Calculating torque required to operate a flywheel

  • wisam96
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Disengaging and re-engaging gears

  • wisam96
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What Determines the Maximum Number of Gears on a Motorized Bike?

  • tackyattack
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Liquid refrigerant pressure and temperature

  • Arvindaa
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Thermal power of the air extracted from a building

  • ricardo46
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How to specify parameters via calculations in 4 bar linkage

  • Robot94
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Understanding Fuel Pump Performance: Factors, Measurements, and Potential Risks

  • darthapple35
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New drone is quadcopter-plane hybrid

  • Redbelly98
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Software design for Truck Crane Loader

  • Claudio_Baldo
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Need a simple accelerometer for a demo kit

  • k.udhay
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What is the buoyancy force of an oil-filled balloon tethered in water?

  • Sirsh
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How much air pressure is required?

  • AndreBMW
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Gas turbine combustion chamber: cooling only or burning too?

  • SpiffyPhysics
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Potential Energy Stored in Hydrostatic Test Unit

  • free
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Finding axial bearing reactions with two bearings

  • Tekneek
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What factors affect fuel consumption and speed in road vehicles?

  • dean barry
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Corresponding Pressure gradient with flow velocity

  • Mazzletov
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Solving Water Hammer Equations: Joukousky vs Wave Equations

  • rppearso
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Why Cubsats are called nanosatellites?

  • Gjmdp
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Estimating Wheel Torque From Engine Torque

  • ein_stein
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Pressure on Piston due to Compressible flow

  • Chotai Nikhil
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Is the ISS a closed or open system with radiation flux?

  • Panderson
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How does pipe diameter affect pressure in fluid flow?

  • DinjiP
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Determing flow of a closed loop parallel pumping system

  • David Gin
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Friction Hinge Design using spring pins

  • RKD89
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Depth at which thermal oscillations become negligible

  • James Brady
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Low-pressure turbine system heat xchanger?

  • Monday
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Most efficient way to rotate a cylinder using a motor?

  • Will_SPHS
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Advantages of Three Wheel Boot Strap System Airconditioning

  • Rahul Mohan P
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Turbine performance: understanding notation

  • Rahul Mohan P
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Heat Transfer Coefficient -Air Flow onto perpendicular plane

  • Mitch1
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Making a vehicle with regenerative breaking

  • wisam96
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Determining the number of gear teeth?

  • Isaac_DB19
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How do I determine air flow in a duct?

  • TSN79
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Stirling-type cooler (Air liquefaction)

  • Absentee
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Selecting the best material for gears?

  • Isaac_DB19
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ANSYS workbench moving plate contact

  • Shahrior Ahmed
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How do I calculate flywheel torque for a single cylinder diesel engine?

  • //Preeti//
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Steam condensing to 30C then pumping back to 1 bar

  • Aledrus
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Standard used in Ansys to design

  • Kapil Pudasaini
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How Can I Design an Efficient Water Heating System for a High Flow Pool?

  • IttyBittyBit
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How to control spin of a launched ball

  • Nicholas Bunker
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Why are vapour cones from aircraft cones?

  • lowea001
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Pressure drop across a valve in hydraulics

  • Mr bboy
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How can I analyze the effects of this orifice in a pressure regulator?

  • MrBear
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Function of the air conditioner fan outside?

  • Iconoclast
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Steam generation for an experiment

  • manderson99
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Burner and fuel consumption rate

  • MTGreen
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How to calculate amount of vapor given q(t) and p(t)?

  • Stefan2015
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Deflection of a Cantilever with support

  • Firzan
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Heat Pipe Questions: Understanding Two Phase Cooling and Pressure Changes

  • Yarbles
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Can Recycled Water Flow Uphill in a Pressure System?

  • malume
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Water Pressure Calculation (Limited Information)

  • Sirsh
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Calculating Membrane Deflection of Clamped Rectangle

  • pavel123
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Confusion about pressure drops and pressure regulators

  • darthapple35
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Will the fuel system benefit from a larger fuel line?

  • darthapple35
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Combustion Turbine Capacity Enhancement?

  • myperfectworld
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