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Protecting cruise ship in harbor against hurricane?

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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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Automotive Ideal torque vs engine speed curve

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Automotive What is the Velocity of Air Entering the Air Filter?

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What is the best model to explain metal cutting?

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Maths solution for partially restrained cantilever beam

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Under damped and Over damped systems Examples

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Find Reliable Aluminum 1100 Strain-Stress Curve for ANSYS Workbench V.13

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Mechanisms + Acceleration Diagram

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Underground pipe cooling system for rooftop water tank in Dubai

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How Do You Calculate Pipe Temperature with Uniform Heating Over Length?

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Automotive Weight limit for cart with two car wiper motors

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Plane Trusses Finite Elements 2 - Assembled Matrix

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Why only one of two mating parts are threaded?

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Book for power and heat thermodynamic cycles

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How does tyre rotation increase air pressure?

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Otto cycle mathematical model - Heat added by combustion?

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Vertical Centripetal Force to push an object

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Boyle's flask - really? how? and what if?

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Can i have a idea about waste heat recovery projects ?

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GSHP - What percentage of heat energy is taken from the ground?

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Calculating torque from yield stress understanding

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Sizing of a hyperbolic cooling tower

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Is the Valve Knob Screw Left-Hand Threaded?

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What role can mechanical engineering play in free range farming?

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Diesel-Electric vs. Diesel: Which is More Efficient for Train Propulsion?

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Scaling down an axial compressor to half diameter

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Calculating the Moment of Inertia of an Irregular Rod Shape

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Screw Pump Sizing: Calculations for Inverted Pumps

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Analytical solution for thermal stresses in a rectangular plate

  • Sargam
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Boat design review and feedback

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Any method to find the tank size without knowing the dimensions?

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Fluid Mechanics of a French press

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Automotive Why does CI engine performance change with load and speed?

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Have you tried the free FEM solver iPad app for structural engineering?

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Creating a concentrated force at the center of a beam in Ansys Workbench 13

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Calculating Center of Mass: Xi & Yi for Statics

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What does 6 MPm mean on a counter blow hammer?

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Effect of Prandtl Number on Thermal Boundary Layer

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Seat belt force mismatch between test data and calculations

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Automotive Car battery life - playing radio

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Transformation between Global and Local Coordinates for Uniform Bar Elements

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What are the best online help sources for dynamics?

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The force of 9.8 Newtons. torque equated to watts

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Mechanical Engineering Senior Project Ideas in the Biomechanics field

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Introduction to Finite Element Analysis

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Efficiency map of the drive train of a car

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Any good Thermodynamics resources?

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Coefficient of friction for rolling wheels

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What Is a Fuel Gas Ring Main in Benzene Production?

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Finding torque required to turn a shaft and plate at rated RPM

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How Do You Calculate Torque for Servo Motors in a Pick and Place System?

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How do belt-driven car AC compressors control temperature and speed?

  • Charles123
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Formula to calculate psi required to deliver gpm through nozzel

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How would one calculate Tug of war forces between two vehicles?

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Torque calculations for peristaltic pump

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Darcy-Weisbach equation gravitational term in pipe-flo pro

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Automotive Crossflow fan on car roof to recharge battery while driving

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How should I switch an air conditioner off?

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Understanding Pressure Loss in Closed-Loop Cooling Systems

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What is the process for designing a bolt joint for a static assembly?

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Calculating Double Act Pneumatic Cylinder to Lift 200 Lbs.

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How to chech if a multibody model is correct

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What's the most illustration explanation or reason why a shear can

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Automotive Homemade Diesel-Electric Hybrid

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Hot water recirculation-Domestic water supply

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How do I prepare for an engineering phone interview?

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Relationship between velocity of wheel and car

  • dan38
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What CFM air compressor do you need to lift 100 kg?

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Difference between G-force and Grms

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Analysis of Lifting Hook for Rolled Cans

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Gas spring solution for flap needed.

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What are the key considerations for designing truck wheel studs?

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Axial traction of a beam on support

  • Roger44
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Hp vs weight; acceleration comparison

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Gas strut / spring size for floor trap door

  • smarchy
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Calculate compressor efficiency

  • varnish
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Does a Compression Spring's Pitch Affect Its Constant k?

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Automotive Engine oil flow/pressure restriction

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Automotive Automobiles - why not to remain in 1st gear?

  • sk1329
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Automotive What Changes in the Engine System When Varying Speed in a Specific Gear?

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Role of Reversibility in Carnot Cycle Efficiency

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Can side impellers improve yoyo stability?

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What is the required force to achieve constant radius beam bending?

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Vector addition resources for mechanical engineering dynamics

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Resolving Forces to Ensure Motor Strength: A Screw's Tale

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Calculating Force on a Glockenspiel Bar Using a Dropped Ball

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Which fluid mechanics book is recommended for preparing over the summer?

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Technical skills needed for mechanical engineering students

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What are the must-have textbooks for graduate school classes?

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Simulation of a GSHP system in Simulink

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What HP Can Be Generated from a 120 CFS Water Wheel with 20-Foot Drop?

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Is my stepper motor causing vibration on my wooden plate?

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What is the required load to bend a steel plate in a radius of 508mm?

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Short Beam Bending: Roark's Formulas For Stress and Strain

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