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Automotive Safety regulations for motorcycle frames
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Help with Experiment of Capturing soot with steam
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How Is Stress Transferred to the Leg Support in a Vinyl Pool Strap System?
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Angular velocity of a box about a corner
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Why cooling circuits, in a fridge for example, need a dryer?
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Can the Siemens SGT400 turbine be used as both a generator and compressor?
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Mechanical Final year project for 3 person
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Heat Exchanger Design for Gases: Air from 10-110 oC & Flue Gas 1259-725 oC
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How to calculate pressure (PSI) of a gas in a tank
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What is the physical meaning of moment about an axis?
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Drilling Hole in Steel Tube for Go Kart Cables: Safe?
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What is the function of the feed hold button on a CNC lathe?
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Where to Find Small, Battery-Operated Air Valves for Arduino?
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Automotive Closed loop spark advance and it's effect on abnormal combustion.
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Tilting Objects: Learn How to Tilt an Object for Portable Device Design
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Mechanical engineering vs mechatronics vs software engineering
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Forces on each end of a breaking rope
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Triangular thick plate stiffness matrix transformation
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Automotive Power train calculations question
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Automotive Diesel ICE with EGR injection timing change
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Torque calculations for logging winch
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How Much Energy Is Needed to Tip a Can?
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Force free body diagram problem on gym equipment
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Distribution of Weight on Two Supports
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Calculating Torque Requirements for a Mobile Robot
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Designing a Torsion Test Equipment for Mechanical Engineering Project
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Airflow design for generator box
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It feels like M.E. undergrad degree is a JOKE
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Ansys Basic Structure random Force/Deformation
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How Can a Sculpture Be Engineered to Float and Stay Stable in Water?
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Flywheel effect on torque fluctuation of an IC engine
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Bullet Proof Shields For Military Infantry
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Automotive What is the Discrepancy in Engine Power Calculation for Toyota Prius?
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AC Motor Suggestions for a new product
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Help finding plans for a simple rankine cycle
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Turbulence and Turbulence Modeling
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Making a vacuum seal with a screw?
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Automotive 100 MPH/Rear Gear 1/4 Mile Drag Calculations
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Automotive How Do Ford 429 Engine Valve Covers and Heads Compare to Cobra Jet Models?
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Compressed Air System Dynamics: Calculating Pressure Drop & Cv
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Strange question about an AWD hand car
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Automotive Tire Coefficients of Friction (Mu)
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How to derive an average output from a triaxial accelerometer
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Need help desciding if I am mechanical engineering material. Thanks
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Contraction of a static fluid due to cooling
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Design Large Sign for Wind Loads
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Configuring a Triggering Device for a Mouse Trap Attached to a Can
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Please help,A vehicle enters a test section of straight road at s =
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Calculating Distance with Motorcycle Patrolman and Car
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Determining Drag Coefficient & Downforce of Spoilers
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Automotive 1985 IMSA Ford Semi-Repro Questions
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Bicycle Trailer/Cot - What Materials?
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New Automotive sub-forum under ME
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ANSYS Tutorials: Where to Find the Help You Need
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Camshaft design from wanted torque
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Is Steam Really that Great? Consider This
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Hi, I am currently doing a project to design a lamp and am really
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Very High Temperature materials
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Bending around sheave or pulley
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Bale Loading Machine Components
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Help on Mango peeler & juice extractor machine
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Automotive Does the Force Generated in a Piston Engine Vary During the Down Cycle?
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Calculating Heat Capacity & Water Flow to Melt Honey Barrels
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ANSYS - mchining cutting forces
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Adjusting and Measuring RPM On Lawn Mower Engine
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Career prospects for a CAD Monkey?
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Design of Mobile Crane - Find Free Data Sources
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How Does Mesh Size Affect Heat Transfer Modeling in COMSOL?
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Nozzles and diffusors(gas dynamics)
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What Is the Fastest Method to Cool 7 Gallons of Water in a Small Space?
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Can anyone offer advice on vibration in machine tool?
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Calculating change in length under max load
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Engine cylinder temperature problems
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What Does 's' Represent in the Laplace Transform of Control Theory?
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Determine temperature profile in cylinder wall
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Variable mass/force oscillations
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What are the different ways to control a wind turbine
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Shear valve Design. Wall thickness at break point.
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How is pressure converted to force in a large enclosed surface area?
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Optimizing Half Shaft Design: Balancing Forces, Materials, and Cost
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Mobile food van opening roof load count
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Steam engine out of coke can help
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Will a gear always mate with itself?
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How to study this kind of flow ?
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Inertia Matching with TWO or more motors
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What does it mean by : 'Fire and explosion protection on offshore platforms'
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Hertzian Static Contact Stress Acceptance Criteria
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Use a wood screw or a bolt & nut?
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Vehicle Lateral Force Effect on Tire Wear
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Stoichiometric combustion. Products and dissociation
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Bringing Water To Texas From The Mississippi
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Internal centering and mounting system for pipes
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Calculating Roll Bar Resistance
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Flow Measurement - Pitot Static Tubes Bernoulli's Equation etc.?
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Calculating Mass Flow Rate of a Fluid in a Pipe
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Automotive What are the key differences between Mopar and Ford V-8 engines?
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What would happen if two identical blowers were connected in a loop?
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Sealing Hellium at Higher Temperatures: Possible Solutions?
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Automotive Wheel shimmy and wheel wobble difference
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