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Gearbox Backlash: Adding Values for Output?

  • Shady99
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Automated sample extraction from oven?

  • MarcinK
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Slipping 4WD Mobile Vehicle Wheels Without Oil or Water

  • uaefame
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Turbocharger: Mass flow rate and pressure ratio

  • Carlko26
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How Does Removing Degrees of Freedom Impact Mechanical Linkages?

  • Fawzi Da
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PIPE16 vs PIPE288: Ansys v.14 Tutorial Differences

  • mechgen
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Why don't we just block off the exhaust pipe to prevent CO2

  • tyvus
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Why Do the Last Two Sprinklers Have a Smaller Spray Pattern?

  • roro36
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Connecting rod failure Hyundai Veloster 1.6

  • mazolt
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Simple torque transfer question

  • wakadarc
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Why is there a negative torque in TMD of 4 stroke engine?

  • pravi
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Confussion with setting up loading conditions on cylinder

  • roldy
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Moment and reaction of shaft - Statically Indeterminate

  • Tekneek
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How to calculate Stress Intensity Factor?

  • saurabh anand
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How to design flow rate of a lubrication system?

  • gracepentinio
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This futuristic jet engine is very real

  • hagar
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Orbit Determination Issue (Method of Gauss, in Escobal's text)

  • tjcafitz
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How do I calculate the braking band forces in this system?

  • Runei
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Expandable Gear CVT: Michael Warren Reed's Project

  • MichaelWReed
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Torque Required To Move a Vehicle

  • John Vorberger
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Is Interviewing an Engineer for a School Project Allowed at PF?

  • Dannyarizpe
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What are some good ideas for capstone project?

  • Dimitri655
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How to communicate 3d CAD with complex surfacing?

  • RKD89
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Calculating CFM Needed to Move an Object of 2lbs

  • Joe_Schmo
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Reynolds transport theorem (1st year undergrad fluids)

  • Jamessamuel
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Metal Gate posts strengths & stresses?

  • Steeki_ugfb
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Where/how to make a plastic piston valve

  • Seanshine
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Compressor Water Cooled Chiller Thermal Calculations

  • David Gin
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Air flow through small rectangular opening

  • marcske
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Deciding Between Baldor & Leeson Motors for Smaller Size

  • AngelaG
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Modeling mathematically a rotary flexible beam

  • Ben9622111222
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Calculate the pressure drop of air across an orifice?

  • smrodriguez4
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Question about reversible adiabatic expansion

  • hybro
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What stress to use for fatigue analysis

  • scootypuffsnr
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Flexural strength of triangular prism

  • patehi
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Euler's column Formulae application in aluminum cans?

  • Hashiramasenju
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How to analyse a simple fracture with ANSYS WB?

  • Butters
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How to cut a surface in ANSYS workbench?

  • Butters
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Need help with exhaust system (acoustic/valves/pulse)

  • SwedishFred
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Increasing Cantilever Beam Stiffness

  • Jeffrey Lee
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What Does R34 2 PL Mean in an Isometric Drawing?

  • Catapult
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Corrosion mesurement techniques

  • stats_student
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Solving the Energy Balance Problem

  • tonyjk
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Guitar string tension: effect of total length

  • sgb
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Can the Pressure Rise in a System be Calculated When Leakage Changes?

  • Max de Jong
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Torque required to decelarate a disc

  • Shady99
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Why not use turbine engines in cars?

  • dvsk000
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Find zero force members of a truss

  • MienTommy
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Hoop + radial + axial = multi axial stress?

  • scootypuffsnr
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What type of pressure and temperature sensors should I use?

  • yousaf nasir
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Practical measurements of ramjet engine

  • Gabrielito
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Internal combustion engine efficiency

  • physior
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T-Cork hopper/sorter design help

  • Michaelf5567
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Calculation of actual spray angle and coverage

  • Gollegun
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Airflow on/around quadcopter drone

  • Daren Zomerman
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Automotive How can we improve helicopter technology with a new flying car design?

  • amorphos_b
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Physics of Water Pressure Regulators/Reducing Valves

  • mindarson
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Shouldn't pressure loss quadruple if flow rate doubles?

  • TSN79
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Engine torque: Can an alternator increase ICE torque?

  • ismagtz
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I need to make a robot over the next year

  • TheInfection
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Linear force on lead screw drive

  • Nico33
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What is the definition of the degrees of freedom in a kinematic chain?

  • Le Chi Hiep
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Physical Interpretation of velocity potential

  • Ali Baig
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Calculating Torque Limit on a hollow shaft type component

  • spggodd
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Third Order Differential Equations (Mass-Spring-Damper-etc)

  • Dnandrea
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Thinner beer bottle has lower heat loss?

  • swampwiz
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Automotive Could cars have a better fuel economy at low speeds?

  • Czcibor
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Not Satisfied with Answer to Thermodynamics Question

  • Sirsh
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Where can I find some small particle materials?

  • Galbi
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Experimental data modelling off-road vehicle travel

  • Geegeegee
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How do I calculate forces acting on bicycle axle?

  • SkyblueEagle
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Calculating the Moment of Inertia of a loaded flywheel

  • wakadarc
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Different tread design v/s performance

  • anubodh
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Help identifying this pivoting joint mechanism

  • stevebenson
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Rotary to vertical motion (Designing a vibrating platform)

  • wakadarc
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Fill time to compress an air tank

  • hail_thy_gt
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Horsepower in inches per second?

  • wmingin
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Can exhaust heat be used to reduce automotive drag?

  • David Morgan
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Building a "slider crank"-style lifting platform. Need help.

  • thorq
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Gear box design against specified engine specifications

  • Prashant6182
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Gas Burner and Combustion Chamber Design

  • EdY
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Can you make the drive shaft the alternator?

  • James O'Neill
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Can Pascal's Law Be Applied to Enhance Cycle Rickshaw Efficiency?

  • rohitjinnu16
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Project: Ball Launcher - Calculate Torque and RPM

  • Pencil123
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The Energy of a Fire Truck in crash

  • gilljersey
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Rear wheel drive with separate motors

  • themotorman
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Questions about turbulence spectra

  • RandomGuy88
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Automotive How can gears improve the performance of mousetrap cars?

  • Luke15
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Finding Static Equilibrium: Solving for Unknown Angles

  • Ping427
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Help with Buckingham Pi theory on turbine

  • Valgeirp
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Calculating braking force for a disc

  • Shady99
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Find length of spring A in equilibrium position

  • ally2106
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Nominal Linear Velocity Gas flow

  • Jamesan89
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Understanding how a door closer works

  • pilofrogs
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How Can You Prevent Pedal Slip in a Tandem All-Wheel Drive Tricycle?

  • TheNerdyGuy
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Stress profile of pressurized bent shell

  • ff12120
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