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How to estimate shear center location before calculating

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Automotive How Does Air Affect Engine Coolant Performance?

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Cylindre buckling under axial load

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Exhaust and engine accoustics for asthetics and performance

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Speaker Back And Forth Motion Damping

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Automotive Stiffness and dumping coeficients of a VW Golf

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Can we truly maximize solar energy by harnessing it locally?

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Several questions about engineering

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Why is the second moment of area multiplied by (1/2)²?

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Character classification with scanf storing only first input

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Fixed end beams-Direction of moment

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How to arrive the glass thickness ?

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Mechanics of material people Stresses

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Steel wind tower resistance to sunlight

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Which wheel loses traction first?

  • aortucre
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Why are handles curved?

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Double Scissor Lift: Calculating Fatigue, Buckling, Deflection, etc.

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Pump pressure and pipe diameter

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Calculate torque/power needed to lift a 4 kg load

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What Generators Can Run on 12 kgm Torque and Their Current Output?

  • roozer
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Finding a Dynamics Book with Derivation for Angular Acceleration

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What is a Tribometer? - Learn About its Working Principle

  • k.udhay
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How does a throttle cause a decrease in pressure?

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What Is A Radiation? (Heat Transfer)

  • mymachine
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Model Steel for Large Deformation: Multilinear Isotropic Hardening

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What programming environment to use?

  • pyroknife
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What's the point of this screw?

  • Femme_physics
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How to calculate Torque for motor?

  • zaki4484
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Linear actuators for mechanical project

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Calculating pressure in a barometer

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Learning Gambit and Fluent CFD software as a beginner

  • anthro
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Drafting question - weld symbol question

  • Sultan of Hel
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Calculate RH of moist air at higher temp ranges accurately?

  • abhya
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What is the meaning of material requirements?

  • hazar
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Braking system design for 20kW direct drive wind turbine

  • Rajamani
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Necessity of End time in analysis Setting

  • Total_Damage
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Force in the inclined bar with the weight on one side.

  • panoleks
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Muffler chamber design for high-frequency SBC exhaust tone

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Automotive How Do You Calculate the Flow Rate for a Diesel Engine Oil Pump?

  • malodeatul
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Strength of Square Steel Tubing

  • Windsor EDD
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Automotive Metal Composition of Motorcycle Chassis

  • mymachine
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How were things manufactured before CNC?

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Residual stress simulation on Ansys

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Pro E Wildfire 4 video tutorials

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Moving an object over predetermined trajectory

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Finding a small electric actuator for 15 lbs downward force

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Comparison of two engines of the same displacement

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Timoshenko - Euler Bernoulli In Plane Curved Beams

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Windturbine-type structures on moving vehicles?

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Bending a Beam to Produce Uniform Tension

  • mrh5529
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Calculating Torque Split in Axle Differentials

  • bugatti79
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How to solve for the angle of principle stresses

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Understanding Ashby's Tables: Y-Intercepts

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How does the child safety lock on a drawer work?

  • pikachoo
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Combining air pressures - Time to reach equilibrium

  • oujapuja
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Screw and mating thread strength equations

  • mc172
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Effect variable cylinder radius has on airflow

  • serveboy
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Mooney-Rivlin material convergence issue in ANSYS tire analysis

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Need opinion on a heat sink (concept)

  • silent_hunter
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Pressure across multiple closed feedwater heaters

  • unknownowen
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Leak detection based on pressure

  • darren000
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What is a thrust load and how does it affect bearings in a winch?

  • bhsmith
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Differences between LES, RANS and DNS turbulence modeling?

  • _shankybro_
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Conceptualisation to materialisation

  • polka129
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Question for pressure engineer about cascading gas

  • steves1080
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How can a hydraulic steering be replaces the modern power steering system

  • varun atri
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Can You Calculate CFM from 0.6 MPA and Duct Size?

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Flywheel design. Inertia dyno for 745 KW engine.

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Friction Velocity from Law of the Wall

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Automotive No oil flow when diesel engine cranks at 300 rpm

  • malodeatul
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Automotive High compression turbocharged engines.

  • Kozy
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Elementary mechanical advantage question

  • murrmac
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Mass transfer with with a pressure regulator

  • steves1080
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What is the difference between the stress results and why is it important?

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Fabricating bipedal-ish walker legs,

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16 inch piston with a 4 inch outlet

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Interpretation of finite element analysis results

  • Fugro
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How to model friction in ansys?

  • sgvaibhav
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Automotive Heat/energy balance for a high power petrol engine

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Failure of a steel shelving unit

  • Ralff
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Planet Gear Train: Find RPM of Gear 4 w/o Carrier

  • Latios1314
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Calculating force we need to turn

  • k1mJo
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Can DOUBLE SHEAR occur in ANY direction?

  • polka129
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How Does Heat Transfer in an Electric Oven Work?

  • zzinfinity
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How can I build a simple gear at home for a clock?

  • Mohamad&Issa
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Pressure Drop Calculation Using U-Tube Manometer

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Kinematics of Euler Bernoulli and Timoshenko Beam Elements

  • bugatti79
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How can I achieve a tighter fit for my aluminum pipe in a clamp-on tee?

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How Do You Calculate HP, Torque, and RPM for a Turbine?

  • dilipbhanu
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Strength calculations of threaded spindle.

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FEA - Static Condensation Example?

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Are There Design Standards for Spiral Plate Heat Exchangers Similar to TEMA?

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Showing resultant stresses on a volume element

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Mechanical Engineer Interview for Career Project

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