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Automotive Senior Project Assistance: Motorcycle Control
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How much power is needed to heat water to 200C through a tube?
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Asperity density and asperity radius of curvature
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Simple mechanism design software
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How to Mathematically Model a Single Vane Rotary Vacuum Pump?
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Pipe Pressure from discharge in Tank
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Basic question about hydraulic pumps
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Automotive Ford Toploader Conversion To Top Gear Only
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Turbulence - just a phenomenon of cavitation?
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Heat Equation for Compressible Fluids: Valid or Not?
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Rubber O-Rings: Hardness, Strength & Compression Stress
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Entrance to centrifugal pump = pressure lost in entrance to container?
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Simulating end milling process in ansys.
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Measuring Laser Drilled Hole Diameter in Ceramic Specimens
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Acceptable misalignment between holes on mating parts?
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Is Computer Crash Simulation Post A Virus?
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Automotive Where is the Single Spring Located in the Indy Car's Rear Suspension?
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DIY Auto Dog Dish: Simple Build & Refill Ideas
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Moving Shock Tables: Fundamentals of Compressible Flow Mechanics
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3D Printer :Researching 3D Printers for Purchase
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Machine Element Design: Resources & Lecture Notes
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Measuring Heat Loss in a Hollow Cylinder
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Is Mohr's Circle Accurate in Real-Life Applications?
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What are some resources for learning hydraulic design for a battle bot weapon?
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Max load on rc cart depending on motor torque
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Vibration with velocity and acceleration.
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How can a Feed Magazine Design Facilitate Electronic Data Destruction?
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Why Should You Consider OpenVSP for Aircraft Modeling?
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Gears, Pulleys, & Electric Motor Questions
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Maximizing Courant Number in VOF CFD Multiphase Simulation | Tips & Tricks"
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Rotary Vane Engines: Advantages & Disadvantages
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Which Scenario Wears Diesel Engine Less?
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Can Ductile Iron Withstand the Torsional Stresses of Front Axle Shafts in Jeeps?
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Intake Runner Air Velocity Question
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Does anyone know a good supplier for mechanical parts?
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What is the critical speed of the hollow shaft and how can it be increased?
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Hydro turbine water input/output
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Coolant & Air Flow Rate: Finding the Car's Rates
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Why Is Understanding Basic Concepts in Structural Analysis Challenging?
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Winding resistance of large motor vs small motor
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Perpetual machine by using free energy of magnets Possible?
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Design Pump w/ 158m & 250m Water Levels
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How Fast Can a 16-Inch Butterfly Valve Actuate?
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What’s happening and why (water flow within a container)
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Shooting basketballs into a basketball hoop using projectile motion
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What is Stack Up Tolerance Design for 2D?
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Why do trusses, beams, and frames have unique force systems?
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Sizing brackets to wall-mount condensing unit
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Solve Imperial to Metric Conversion Error for Roll Bar Rate
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Can gasoline engines run on diesel fuel and vice versa?
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CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) Software Inquiry
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Shear Modulus of Steel: Help Understanding Imperial Calcs
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How Do You Calculate the X and Y Components of Forces in a Pully System?
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Test for continuous torque and peak torque.
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What is the basic skills for a mech eng student required to work in AUS?
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How Can a Heat Sink's Thermal Resistance Be Reduced with a Cooling Fan?
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Pitot Tube Experiment: Measuring Pressure & Velocity
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Automotive What Is the Mass of an Average Car and Engine?
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Robot vision distance sensing & launch tube design
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Hydrodynamics: Wavemaking resistance
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Navier Stokes EQ: Derivation in Integral Form
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What is the Eigenfrequency mean in vibration?
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How Does Paper Size Affect the Flight of Paper Airplanes?
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Mousetrap vehicle (please reply today )
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Steering Wheel Angle & Radius of Curvature
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Little help to construct the 4 node-quad shell stiffness matrix
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Modeling of an acoustic transducer and calculation of force
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Interesting discovery about a Metric M6 bolt
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Steam, preesure and water flow project. I Cant understand the behavior.(+Movie)
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What factors affect the efficiency of compressors?
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Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems (KERS)
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Extra material for a Mechatronics course?
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Connecting Auto-Bots: Line Follower & Motor Control
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How do I implement spring supports in ANSYS?
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Linux Package to Simulate Mechanical Systems
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Syphon problem with above ground water tank
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Can anyone help me out for final year project
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Robotics Project for a beginner
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Tips for getting samples of materials
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What are the drawbacks of free piston engines and how can they be improved?
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Press versus hammer, kinetic energy vs pressure
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3D stress -strain relationship
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Condensate-boiler return steam turbine
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Designing & Engineering Variable Pitch Turbochargers
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Interview with a mechanical engineer
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Wooden stand. Critique and advice needed please
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SAE technical papers: what is the impact factor?
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Selecting Vacuum Pump for Microfluidics Device
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Calculating Head Losses through a Pipe Network
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A plastic ball is inflated enough to produce tangential stresses.
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Controlled Spring Like Mechanism
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Simple Bernoulli's exercise to find air flow rate
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Low speed wind tunnel testing (book)
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How would you test large vehicle for sinusoidal vibration
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Calculate pressure loss due to bends in a pipe?
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How to Conduct Simple Flow and Pressure Drop Tests on Valves?
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Need a simple design for Piston(spring?)/Crankshaft
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Understanding and Connecting CO2 Canisters to Piping for Scientists
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Why Is the Bubble Centered in a Spirit Level When Horizontal?
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Natural gas, Water, standard oil. say motor oil properties
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