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C Programming for Mechanical Engineers: Benefits & Applications
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Resonant modes of simply supported square plate
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Power screw horizontal applicaion FBD
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Steel Mounting Bracket Question
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Vorticity of Aircraft Trailing Vortices
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Opposite Direction/Opposing Forces
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Robot Materials: Light & Economical Solutions
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Worm gear CAN NOT selft locking
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Selecting a Motor for a Planetary Centrifugal Mixer: AC, DC, or Universal?
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The catamaran tank - an MRAP which doesn't roll over
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Fan & Propeller shapes: Sickle and Curved
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Modeling, Simulation and Engineering Design.
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Useable surface area for a throttle body (valve), is this correct?
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Gearing a 2.2KW 24000RPM Motor to 200RPM Output Shaft Torque
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Optimizing Plate Surface for a Weighted DC Motor
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What is the spring constant for a uniformly loaded clamped beam?
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Calculating compressed air system leakage
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Calculation for injection molding
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Driver Car Seat Motion Mechanism
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How to plot actual compressor performance on manufacturer performance chart?
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DC Motors & Gear Boxes: Get Ahead of Your Assignment!
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Why does a small air motor require more CFM than the compressor's rated watts?
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What are the best combustion properties for jet engine air?
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Where Can I Find High Speed Electric Motors Over 10000RPM and 0.2 N*m?
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Is Graduate School Necessary for Pursuing a Career in Mechanical Engineering?
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Parameters to design a breaking system
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Can Static Toughness Data Accurately Predict Impact Load Failures?
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Enquiry: Bending not along principle axis?
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Static pressure decreases pump work
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How Do You Calculate Flow in a Vibrating Feeder?
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Nutating disk engine perspectives
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Engineering Mechanics: Get Your Top Book Recommendations Here!
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Device to check tension in wire ropes
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2D Finite Element Transient Heat Problem
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Retro-Engineering Or Reverse-Engineering
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Safe Pressure for Aluminum/Acrylic Cylinder Container
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How to Calculate Moment and Shear for a Wind Turbine Spar Design
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Rockwell hardness of valve lifters
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Toleracing of center distance with internal gear
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Mechanical Failure of a Truncated Cone
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What drives evaporation and diffusion?
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How to determinate instantaneus torque
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Avoiding (acoustic) noise from the electric motor
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Finding 3D Models: A Resource Guide
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How can we solve the fatigue problem in a more efficient way?
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What are the effects of boiling in a heat exchanger?
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Need information how with simple technology make sticky fly paper
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Finding damping coefficient of material
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Question to Mechanical engineers
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Modeling Sandwich Composites in Workbench: Non-Penalty Based Contact?
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Inelastic Buckling/Buckling in short columns
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Shell Side Fluid Velocity of Baffled HX & Re - Nobody knows last resort
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How to Calculate Buckling Force for Edge-Applied Loads?
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Hybrid Powertrain Solutions for Niche Vehicles
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How Do I Calculate the Pulley Ratio for a Complex Boat Pulley System?
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Variation of Internal Temperature with external temperature in a sphere
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Shaft Encoder with Pulleys/spring/spool
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How Do You Calculate Probability Distributions for Measured Fibre Angles?
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Help with Heat Transfer: Replacing Shell & Tube w/ Multi Plates
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Coefficient of friction for bronze on stainless steel?
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Exhaust linearisation in a moving piston
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Most simple way to dispence fluid one minim at a time ?
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Need help to read and understand machine drawings
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What Machines Are These (Metrology)?
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Thermodynamic Properties Fixing the State
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Understanding the Stress Induced in Cylindrical Nanowires: Equations 12-13
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Help Finding Exhaust Valve for Newbie Engineer
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Engine Power Specification: How & Why Max Power & Torque at Certain Speeds?
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How to read the oil spill monitor?
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Pressure distribution of buoyancy force
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How to estimate the Startup torque of a pump motor
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Why does a rope have different stiffness than a rod of the same diameter?
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Beam deflection in a cantilever beam
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Creating a Working Prototype of Armor to Move with You
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Where can I find recommended books and tutorials to learn SolidWorks?
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Larger Reaction Than The Applied Force
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A mechanical toy car (without electronics) should turn on detecting obstruction
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2 identical parallel centrifugal pumps ?
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Property lines on the 2d projections
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Understanding Buckling: The Impact of Moments vs Applied Forces
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How to Apply Boundary Conditions in Finite Element Analysis Using C++?
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Have You Explored Orifice Plate FlowMeters in Pipe Research?
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Could Hybrid Vehicles That Use An Engine to Power an Electric Motor Be Created?
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Ground Source Heat Pump Questions
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Pneumatic piston cylinder design
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Strut Braced Wings: Advantages, Disadvantages & Commercial Use
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Thermal Energy storage of phase change material
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Determining Flow Rate from a Closed Pipe
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Vehicle Ride Vibration: Estimate Pitching, Bouncing & Rolling
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Transient heat transfer in heat exchangers
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Sideways movement in automobile
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What Size Crank Pulley for 9 PSI Boost with a 101.6mm Supercharger Pulley?
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Newbie Converting a USb power to wall(110v)
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Advice for a Mechanical Engineer in a Factory
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Calculating deflection of a tube
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Fastener Tightening Methods: Definition & Comparison
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Shell and Tube Exchangers: What You Need to Know?
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Vonmises Stress Vs Maximum Principle Stress
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When Should You Use Beam Theory vs. Plate Theory for Stress Calculations?
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