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How Is Normal Strain Derived in Calculus?

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Moment of Inertia of a hollow beam inside a rubber shell

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Laptop for CAD Software (Entry Level)

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Centre of gravity of a submerged body?

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Mixture of two gases. If we assume each gas behaves ideally,

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How Do Hanging Nodes Affect Adaptive Meshing in LS-DYNA?

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Tuned Mass Damper: Damp Down or Reduce Vibration?

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Submarine pressure vessel design

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Seeking FEA Help with Final Year Project

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What is better Solid Works or Pro

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Determining optimum flywheel dimensions

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How to become a Design Engineer?

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One way fluid valve- no moving parts

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Self diagnosis and repair system

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Generating Shear and Bending Moment Diagrams for Beams with PDEs

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What is the duration of impact for a steel ball hitting a plastic box?

  • MEriksson
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Hi all,Im having a bit of trouble understanding the concept of

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Limiting values for Von Mises stress in concentric reducers?

  • 31mikey01
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Why do compressed materials fail in shear?

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Calculating Deflection at Point P with Fixed Beams at Point X

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Testing a 100lbf Jet Engine: Blast Shields

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What are these thingies called?

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Automotive How does using a VTG help in reducing turbo lag

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Automotive Using wire EDM for cylinders production

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Optimizing Front Wheel Losses in Rear-Wheel Steered Vehicles

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Wood-Burning Train: Is It Feasible?

  • Ray55
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What are the parameters for an Organic Rankine Cycle waste heat recovery system?

  • TheBigBiscuit
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Scissor mechanism: static analysis

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How Do We Express Vector Fields in Fluid Mechanics?

  • jordansas
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What Do You Call This Type of Hinge?

  • itsdonny
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Reynolds numbers and inertial force

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Hydrogen and oxygen used as fuel in internal combution engine

  • shivakumar06
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Finding a max load from the yield stress

  • Lap9387
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Constant velocity joints vs. universal joint.

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Heat Pump Efficiency in Cold Winter Months

  • jpmyob
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Fluid Dynamics - Spanwise Vorticity of Turbulent Boundary Layer

  • pobatso
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Gear Train horsepower calculation

  • srkirkpatrick
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Drafting question: Views with different scales

  • Sultan of Hel
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Solar tracker calculation of torques and forces

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Cheap Hydrostatic Testing Chamber

  • exceter
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Will curved heat pipes improve Stirling engine efficiency?

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Torque Question: Direction vs Gears

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Heat through a semi-infinity solid

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When to Use Temperature or Pressure for R134-a Tables?

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Calculating required pressure to maintain flowrate

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Why we have to tap the frame during Deflection of Beam Experiment?

  • socrates_1
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Portable compressor power calculation

  • joe609
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What happens when you have equal force on opposing sides of a 2:1 gear train?

  • TaylorTexas
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Semi Truck Heavy Haul Trailer Axle Spacings

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Geometric Tolerances: Standards & Definitions

  • Femme_physics
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Simplex Atomizer flow rate question

  • sgvaibhav
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How to Script in ANSYS Workbench?

  • mechcrazy
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Calculating changes in Fan Power

  • StudYMA
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Pressurized air in aluminum block help so it doesnt explode

  • Guilty Spark
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How to get from pump flow rate to pressure change

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How is a wankel engine lubricated?

  • chhitiz
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Suggestions on acing Fluid Mechanics please

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Need high-temp rubber coating

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How do cables bend and curve when fixed at two points?

  • dazzler77
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Calculating force of Arbor Press

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Trying to determine actual load (PSI) on a drive chain

  • maximiliano
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Pressure Tap Location: Reasoning Needed

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Mechanical Design vs Energy: Which Path Should You Choose?

  • Thizzordie
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What is the Effect of Low Frequency Fatigue on Structural Damage?

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Cantilever Beam Failure as a function of Force Applied to Free End

  • seuss
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Ellipsometry goniometer orientation

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Pressure Washer Pump used to pressurize pressure vessel?

  • JoshCull
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How Does Pressure Affect Temperature Change in a Water Thermos?

  • reynaldo85
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Learning Craig Bampton Method: Reference Books & Resources

  • millachin
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Material durability and machinability info

  • Captain Slow
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Thermodynamics - Free Convection and Temperature Gradient Problem

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What causes pressure drops in pressure vessels

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Forced Convection - Heat transfer equation

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3 wheel Bicycle design: Front Axle

  • Senoraraton
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Why is the second cross section preferred for designing a beam?

  • pukb
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Need Help with Cycloidal Propeller Theory

  • Harrison S
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What is the best 3d CAD software?

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Vibrations heard when a cradle ascends for cleaning a high rise building

  • polka129
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Analysing Stresses from only G forces

  • WannaBeME
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Circular Plate with eccentric hole

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Is a Flexible Drive Shaft Suitable for 90° Motion Transmission?

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Automotive Need Help Calculating MPH Increase From Reduction in Drag Coefficient

  • Animag771
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Automotive Fuel Injector Angle Within Fuel Injector Port

  • Paul B
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A couple questions regarding pressure drop

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Mechanical Engineering Worth It?

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What is a roll center? (steady state cornering in a vehicle)

  • hari00968
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Water dynamics, well piping help

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Can a jet of steam be used to heat drinks quickly?

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Developing Pump Performance Curves

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I need a quick-opening pressure vessel

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ISO 8608: get the time history from PSD of road roughness?

  • serbring
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Protecting cruise ship in harbor against hurricane?

  • Var
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How Fast Should an Electric Car Travel to Maximize Distance?

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Automotive To calculate the peak gas forces

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