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Calculating turbine RPM in a pipe with known air velocity and diameter
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Automotive Websites for getting datasheets for Ford 220HP engine sensors?
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What is the temperature loss along a duct with hot air entering?
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When are the Navier Stokes equations invalid?
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Wheelchair access to a shower bench?
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Static hydraulic pressure in a pipe
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What is bending moment? Is it a moment couple? Why?
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"Rigid airship" using low density hydrogen (LDH) inflation
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Problem with the friction model in an Abaqus simulation
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Converting Force Measurement to Pressure
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Heat Treating ASTM A709 Grade A Steel
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Automotive, Holes Subframe etc., Purpose (not for Fastener Access)?
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Calculate the residual stress on a beam after bending
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Stirling Engines for Home Power
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Bernoulli equation and parallel pipe branch
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Torque Limiting Extension Question
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Fatigue Testing: Calculating ΔK vs da/dN from R & Max Stress
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Help for bending calculation rectangular steel tube
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How can I easily Uncouple this slide and lock on an office chair?
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Gear teeth force from the rotation angle
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Is a 2 ply cylinder as strong as a 1 ply twice the thickness?
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Orbital shaker - DC servo or stepper motor
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Rolling mill force calculations
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Math vs. FE Method: Comparing Mechanical Engineering Focus
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Building an Electric Motorcycle from Scratch
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Guitar string tension: effect of total length - continued
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Cleaning of the finned tubes on gas cooler without disassembling
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What DOES the direction of a ceiling fan do?
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What is this mysterious mechanical device found in an Air B&B cottage?
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Minimum screw thread engagement to support weight?
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Need to determine best placement and stroke length of a pneumatic cylinder
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Fluid Dynamics Question -- Water flowing through a pipe into two cylinders
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Friction between motor and flywheel
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Could we make a practical solar fridge?
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LEGO: Unlocking Limitless Creative Possibilities
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Radio Controlled Lego Submarine
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What is the origin and validity of assumptions about the strain energy function?
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Designing a spiral with a certain angle relative to movement direction
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How to solve for face pressure on Roller 3 using the force pushing 1
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Bolted Sleeve Connections with Hollow Sections
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Strain Energy Functions and Springs
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Mechanism Ideas for: Rotary Action-input Pump?
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How Do You Calculate the Stress Limit of a Spinning Flywheel?
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Triangular cavity thermal radiation simulation
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Why Does the Free Decay in X-Direction Differ Between SIMPACK and OPENFAST?
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Measuring the critical capillary number
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Convert moment force at lever support
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Tensile and shear capacity of metals
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How Is Cylinder Force Calculated to Rotate a Beam with a Horizontal Load?
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Calculating Force Needed to Raise Steel Tower
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How Can I Ensure My Torsion Spring Is Strong Enough for the Load?
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How Can I Create a Diagram That Shows Dependent Answers?
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Air flow in Convergent divergent nozzle
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Can a Hydraulic Motor Determine Torque and RPM for a Two Chain Sprocket System?
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Stewart platform and closed loops
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How Do Multiple Wires Affect Stress Distribution in Steel Brackets?
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Why are table legs placed at the corners?
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Gerotor pump, will it work in a closed system without air?
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Hertzian contact pressure & shear stress
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Part print to CAD model software
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Does a "heat pump" not spew HFCs like an "air conditioner"?
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Water flow thru 18" corrugated culvert
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How can mass be measured independently of gravity?
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Efficiency of a small electrical motor
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So who here has tried to make a homemade wind tunnel? My first attempt
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Stress in rectangular vessel subjected to hydrostatic pressure
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Automotive Amplitude based frequency response simulation in Abaqus
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Designing a Geneva Mechanism: Overcoming Challenges
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A Mechanism which pulls a specific amount of string (yarn) mutiple times
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Can a Rotary Engine Efficiently Charge Batteries in Hybrid Vehicles?
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Scotch yoke mechanism movement equation
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Maximum bending moment and maximum deflection of the spring?
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Torque to rotate a object on the ground about its own axis
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How to get the transfer function for force transmissibility of a wall?
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Radiation heat transfer between parallel plates
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Making a 2D Problem into a 1D Problem
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G-force to pressure relationship inside a shock wave
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Compare 2 mechanical shock scenarios with different magnitude and time
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Linear actuator use in all electric mini-digger
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Pressure of water exiting a hole in PVC
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Venturi effect or Coanda effect or a combination of both in this windmill?
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Four-Bar Parallel Linkage Pendulum
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Calculating Force on Shaft Bearings - Hydro Power Systems
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Calculating fill rate if pressure delta, volume, and time are known?
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Calculating Flow From Tank to Impeller
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Mechanisms to secure items in a box
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The mechanism of bendable headrest of seats on airplane
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Does bolt preload reduce the bearing stress on positioning pins?
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Max linear speed of propeller tip in water
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Hazard levels for pressure vessels with internal bladders
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Heat circle -- Calculating the air flow needed across a condenser
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Heat sink - calculating temperature at the base
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Hospital Air Handler, Discharge Airflow vs. Static Pressure
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Will my fish tank stand hold the weight?
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What size is the Global Stiffness Matrix in this Example?
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Why not use positive displacement turbines?
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Pressure in branching pipes when diameters are not equal
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Help Understanding Bushing Lubrication in Automotive Industry
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How does a 4-piston, 4 stroke internal combustion engine work?
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Design Tool for Compression Testing of Small Samples
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