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Heat transfer in a large steel box

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Automotive Hybrid Cars with the engine as the generator

  • HyperTechno
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How does turbulent viscosity differ from fluid viscosity?

  • lingesh
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Do digital linear scales stretch?

  • Ranger Mike
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Do internal and external pressure on a vessel combine to a net pressure?

  • lingesh
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Automotive Possible causes of car misfires when it rains

  • iwant2beoz
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Calculate hold down force for rotating shaft

  • deserttech
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Why do some motorcycles still use carburetors instead of fuel injection?

  • RaulTheUCSCSlug
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How Do You Calculate Static Thrust from Fan Specifications?

  • reebrah
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Building a Flow Bench - Testing Cylinder Heads with a Pitot Tube

  • Barry Cromp
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Designing Bolts for 500kg Machine Component in Trains

  • lingesh
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Venturi, Orifice and Nozzle

  • Merttt
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Calculate SCFM of Helium Through SS Tubing

  • randync
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Future possibilities of Planetary society's solar sail idea.

  • Monsterboy
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Determining valve type from drawings

  • Steve_112
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Venturi / Ejector Design to Boost Water Flow using a Pump

  • rollingstein
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Why Pressure Reducing Valve doesn't prevent backflow

  • Rob243
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Statically indeterminate tube in Torsion

  • ozmac
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Distance between surfaces in an assembly of sliding parts

  • Kavorka
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How to Derive Equation 2 for Stress Analysis in Flywheels

  • James Brady
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Calculating top speed in each gear given the gear ratios and

  • knight92
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Pressure Relief Device for High Pressure Separator

  • liecdre97
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How to calculate the thickness of retaining ring

  • saran
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Can Bending Stress on Curved Beams Be Calculated Using a Simple Formula?

  • gomerpyle
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Have mass flow rate, want superficial vapour velocity

  • daPope
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Wing flaps: Increase/decrease flow separation at low speeds?

  • koolraj09
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Can Heat Pumps Be Used to Cool Water for Heat Exchangers?

  • Ben Reade
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How to calculate thickness of the segmental ring?

  • saran
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Experimental Modal Analysis using FDD?

  • chaitugk
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How do you design non-circular gears and draw their teeth profiles?

  • ali durmaz
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Effect of Air Bubble on Differential Pressure Measurement

  • can12345
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How can I connect a 6mm motor shaft to a 15mm disc shaft?

  • Silwal
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Centrifugal Force load caused from propeller rotation

  • hovercraft57
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Capstan winch practical for long 2,000' towing up 1,000'?

  • shane2
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Computing Cylinder Pressure from Temperature Trace

  • tangodirt
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What does "compressibility is abridged" translate to?

  • air_novice
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Calculating Support Reaction Force for an Impulse-Driven Bumper Project

  • yilbaris
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Up and down movement of a monitor

  • Anil2207
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What happens if we put a hole in a capillary tube?

  • dark knight13
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Question on intrepretation of loading

  • iqjump123
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How to Simulate Moving Loads in Ansys 15?

  • Rakeshathukattu
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Hydraulic Variable displacement piston Pump selection

  • Tejas Patel
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Do carburetor cars need oxygen sensor ?

  • anhtho
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Miniature Vortex Tube Design Question

  • ravi101
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Required force to rotate the Engine piston

  • ibrahim almalk
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Vibration Vs Oscillation Vs Wave: What's the difference?

  • koolraj09
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Natural ventilation through single opening

  • arc_sd
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How to calculate the max acceleration

  • Ketan Vadher
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Do Car Engines Operate on the Carnot Cycle?

  • person_random_normal
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How to calculate weight and force required to lift a flap?

  • OJT
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Mechanical design - cam timing chain versus gear-driven

  • pnorm91
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Hydraulic Cylinder Loading Conditions

  • George Zucas
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Gearing Down A High Speed Input (>10K RPM)

  • Krast
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Calculating steering rack axial forces?

  • thiru
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Calculating Composite Center of Gravity -- Boat Rack for my Truck

  • RLewis42
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Can a new desalination method revolutionize access to clean water?

  • jim meyer
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Compression of pure nitrogen: Calculating power and temperature

  • Marcus10
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Does Aluminum, after machining, continue to dimensionally change over time?

  • Ranger Mike
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Is there enough torque in the motor for the system?

  • Epiphany Man
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How can I determine spring rate of U-shaped clip?

  • Raddy13
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Minor Loss Coeff. Calc: 60nm Pore Diameter

  • can12345
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Magic of Mechanics - Epicyclic (planetary) gears

  • shorbagy10
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Heat treat 800H steel to 1600F -- any contractors that can do this?

  • Rob Inks
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Converting axial pressure to centripetal force

  • dhaval trivedi
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303 Stainless Steel Properties at High Temps

  • yangshi
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Cable and motor sizing for 1000 lb mountain supply line over 2060 feet

  • shane2
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What would it take for this to lift a man?

  • amorphos_b
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Load Calculation for Hollow Pipe (OD-320mm,ID-310mm,Height-600mm,MS)

  • James1907
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Is a Self-Sufficient Car Possible with Extra Wheels?

  • mcdanko
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Gravity Electricity Generation?

  • Jeffb47
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Looking to interview a mechanical engineer for coursework

  • vpexxi
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Robot Arm Design: Lagrangian of 2-Link, 3-DOF

  • Jide Orisanaiye
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Hip joint torque in walking mechanism

  • dev165
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Solving a Connection Problem: Bolted Joint Stress Analysis

  • Mustard Dijon
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How much pressure needed for pneumatic cylinders to lift?

  • Robert987
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Finding coefficient constants ax, bx, cx in friction model paper

  • manal gull
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How much weight could this hold?

  • dimmaz88
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Pressure Measurement: Big vs Small Diameters

  • can12345
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Go-kart drivetrain calculations for 8.2 kW engine and sprocket pitch

  • JOHN daruwala
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Increasing Compressor Efficiency Question

  • cskib21
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Vertical Beam under eccentric Load

  • GrassCube
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System of limited slip differentials with two power sources

  • howellrh
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Relation between acceleration and time

  • Ketan Vadher
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Nichrome Wire Temperature Calculation

  • Hank Wallow
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Pressure drop analysis on water pipe system w/pump

  • The Real Nick
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Center of Gravity and Suspension of Object

  • Shumon Hossain
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Mechanical noise - A/C and radon fan standing wave hum

  • Kyle Burris
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Tension in Conveyor Belt due to weight placed on it

  • achan88
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Efficiency of air powered water pump

  • CharlieMason
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Mixing of two air flow at different pressure

  • Devang Marvania
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Can a 4Nm wiper motor pull a 400kg sliding gate via rack and pinion?

  • asoundha
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How to calculate force needed to turn a rack and pinion steering wheel

  • Reddy
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Calculating angular velocity when given two wheels speed

  • Idaan
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CG location effect for steady state cornering

  • mekyy
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