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Automotive GM Volt / Vauxhall Ampera and series hyrbrid cars

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How to calculate steam consumption?

  • Musabbir Huss
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Make a Mechanical Timer: Spring vs Counterweight

  • Kaycee92
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Why calculate true stress and strain?

  • Heimerdinger
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Is my power calculation correct?

  • FAlonso
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Are Thermal Resistances Neglected in Heat Transfer Equations?

  • jaredogden
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Automotive Concerned about hiring after graduation. (Engine guy)

  • cnmcalpi
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Automotive Suralmo-Hyperbar engines for use in tanks

  • C. Cadaver
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Formation of shock waves and gas dynamics of flow in a nozzle.

  • Urmi Roy
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Electric motors momentum and load

  • dislect
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Is building a hexapod robot worth the cost and effort?

  • jehan60188
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Where can i find quality '(not wikipedia) materialdata

  • Utvinge
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Moment of inertia - curved flat bar

  • Bearcat_w
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How Do You Calculate Deflection in Double Beam Assemblies?

  • cdf0080
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How can a single electrical motor control a robot? or even a mechanical arm?

  • Femme_physics
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What is the kinematic conditions for free-surface

  • Chuck88
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Good (free) resource for learning basic mechanical engineering

  • TurtlesItself
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ANSYS Workbench - How to obtain vibration data/magnitude?

  • kb24
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Mechanical Engineering Placement Thermodynamics Problem

  • bianca1992
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Solving DC Motor Issue with Rotor Inertia (J) Change

  • zuq
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Where are the alternators in jet planes?

  • Charles123
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Moving 4 items attached on shafts

  • Blad9
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Mechanical shaker for vibration testing

  • SUDHEER87
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Find entropy where the temperature is lower than the saturated temperature

  • civic_67
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Moment of Inertia of Bike Wheel

  • iaing94
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Serial and Paralel micromanufacturing

  • michaelraymen
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SolidWorks Rotation of Component Problem

  • HPRF
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Pressure vessel in a (near) vacuum

  • CaptainofIron
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How Can I Verify My Pulley System Calculations for Weight and Movement?

  • Mopar_Mudder
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Safe tortion load 2X2 square tubing

  • Robert Kisko
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Installation Of Shaft Roll Mills

  • IrvinShepherd
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Pressure drop across an array of different nozzles?

  • tectactoe
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Motion in circles mechanical engineering

  • study12
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Finding a Bearing for 50Bar Pressure in Oven Heat

  • Jack_O
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Brake Release Pressure Leak Testing

  • zenovy
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What is the normal viscous force(stress)?

  • Makveger
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Determine G12 shear modulus from tensile test data

  • waifong
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How to Calculate the Fatigue Limit of Leaf Springs?

  • fpdlskf
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Door closer spring and damping coefficients.

  • nottsgroup
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Checking inertia and torque for 300mm aluminium disc at 30rpm

  • Simples
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What's the part called that converts motor power into electricity?

  • david1443
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Finite element analysis results interpretation

  • gonzalo75
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Heat Convection through a Vertical Pipe

  • AstroWave
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Moment of inertia for non homogeneous density.

  • Teachme
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Empirical data regarding shower heads and water

  • AstroWave
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Is it possible to have a Mach number greater than 1 at the throat?

  • wav3 r1d3r
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Engine and control systems vs powertrain

  • jehan60188
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Which software is the best for 3D drawing?

  • Ng Soon Hao
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.Calculating the Moment of Turning Force for 25mm Square Tube

  • metalworker
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Simple (macroscopic) Cantilever in a Fluid with COMSOL

  • awesomginger
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Finding x-components of reaction in truss problem

  • jehan60188
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Conveyor Speed / Distance calculations

  • Paulvp1968
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Applying Torque Knowledge to Real-Life Problem

  • Teachme
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Mechanics of Solids Cylinders with Lateral Loads

  • Ogmios
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Junior Engineering Design Project Ideas

  • sareyes91
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Manufacturing Method for Scissor Jack - Advice Requested

  • cadstudent
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Does temperature linearly scale in a sealed container with a heater and fan?

  • Logan Fife
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Why does the functional J depend on q but not on q-dot?

  • matematikuvol
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Ground Anchor - Lateral and Uplift Resistances

  • HauntedMines
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How Is Speed Calculated on a Zip Line?

  • oferar
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Pump water weight upward pressure needed

  • tempjock2000
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Trying to make fuel vapor supply system

  • Qaiphyx
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Automotive Are Twin Turbos on a 4 Cylinder Engine Worth it for High Performance?

  • KidWonder
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Modal vibration analysis of 2 beams in ansys

  • vasanthkamath
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How exactly does a dynamicist define deceleration in this case?

  • gikiian
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Can Pedal Power Be Used to Create a Human-Powered Air-Kart?

  • The_Solution?
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Where Can I Find an Affordable, Quiet, and Reversible Gear Motor?

  • Mopar_Mudder
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Convection Heat Transfer Problem

  • AWOC
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Understanding statically indeterminate beams

  • Heirot
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How is torque converted into propelling force on a vehicle?

  • koolraj09
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Developing a Softball Trajectory Model With Pneumatic Piston

  • JayDavis
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Automotive Intake Manifold Turbo flat 4

  • Valhalla14
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Automotive Gravity term in simple 2 DOF quarter car model?

  • infini
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Ansys - Boundary conditions for 2 cylinders and fluid

  • nitinigam
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Heat conduction in a beam with variable x-section

  • schliere
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Automotive Designing a brushless AC motor for Formula Student

  • Frosteh
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Why does the Grashof criterion limit four-bar linkage motion?

  • M110020
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Automotive How electron flow is in a car system

  • Taylor_1989
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What's the point of converting AC to DC and then back to AC?

  • Femme_physics
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Momentum and mass balance in fluid mechanics

  • Chuck88
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Designing Titanium Carbon Uprights for racecar

  • blixxa
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Automotive Electric car with the wind mill

  • akkiakshay
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Min torque rating for a gear and pinion

  • {taylor}
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Why does heat addition decrease stagnation pressure in Rayleigh flow?

  • Urmi Roy
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Automotive Why not CVT? Its ingenious to say the least.

  • hondaman520
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Calculating total stress in bolts that holds an actuator?

  • WillemBouwer
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Is Mechanical Engineering Right for Me?

  • Low VR6
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Scissor Jack(How does it really work?)

  • cadstudent
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Running a motor on an LM555 timer with 6V battery

  • readytolearn
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Calculate fluid pressure loss due to hole leakage

  • raymond350
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Stepping motor coding on microchip

  • readytolearn
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Software to model Bending/Stress/Strain

  • bakoo
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Regenerative Braking Calculation Help

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