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Extra material for a Mechatronics course?

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Connecting Auto-Bots: Line Follower & Motor Control

  • akashbaran12
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How do I implement spring supports in ANSYS?

  • Bref
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Linux Package to Simulate Mechanical Systems

  • syberraith
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Syphon problem with above ground water tank

  • sweetbruce
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Can anyone help me out for final year project

  • salroxx
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Robotics Project for a beginner

  • Urmi Roy
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Tips for getting samples of materials

  • jehan60188
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What are the drawbacks of free piston engines and how can they be improved?

  • Stanley514
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Press versus hammer, kinetic energy vs pressure

  • Benjibear
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3D stress -strain relationship

  • Ronankeating
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Condensate-boiler return steam turbine

  • jakeh_16
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Designing & Engineering Variable Pitch Turbochargers

  • NintendoKD
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Interview with a mechanical engineer

  • komender
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Wooden stand. Critique and advice needed please

  • Jwhite
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SAE technical papers: what is the impact factor?

  • serbring
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Selecting Vacuum Pump for Microfluidics Device

  • kmichel1985
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Calculating Head Losses through a Pipe Network

  • Jim4592
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A plastic ball is inflated enough to produce tangential stresses.

  • hatchelhoff
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Controlled Spring Like Mechanism

  • swightness
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Simple Bernoulli's exercise to find air flow rate

  • levi415
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Low speed wind tunnel testing (book)

  • ephedyn
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How would you test large vehicle for sinusoidal vibration

  • nortel
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Calculate pressure loss due to bends in a pipe?

  • daftdave11
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How to Conduct Simple Flow and Pressure Drop Tests on Valves?

  • daftdave11
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Need a simple design for Piston(spring?)/Crankshaft

  • swightness
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Understanding and Connecting CO2 Canisters to Piping for Scientists

  • The Engineer
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Why Is the Bubble Centered in a Spirit Level When Horizontal?

  • beach
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Natural gas, Water, standard oil. say motor oil properties

  • daftdave11
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Calculate the flow coefficient and pressure drop through valve?

  • daftdave11
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Calculating viscosity force of oil between 2 surfaces

  • levi415
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Designing a Car Jack - Best Type & Tips

  • charlie
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How to make a brick making machine ?

  • zyhlo
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Basic questions about flowing water in a pipe

  • smallrobot
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Remove temperature from welded copper piece

  • joop12
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How to Design Bolts and Through Rods for Mounting Brackets on Columns?

  • ibrahimmaster
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Un equal weight connecting rod will creat problem?

  • sivam50
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Roll resistance calculations error?

  • Jas1159
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Stress calculations on a disk plate

  • bellshom
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Stress forces on aluminum tubings

  • mibiz1
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Any such thing as small steam turbine ?

  • Arctic Fox
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Can I Increase My Motor's RPM from 53 to 300 for a Brewing Grain Mill?

  • calisto737
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Upside down motor mount and Thrust bearing

  • Ralph Z
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What Makes a Truly Eco-Friendly Car?

  • wolram
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Troubleshooting Mesh Issues in Gambit and Fluent CFD Tutorials

  • himanshu121
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Air flow in inlet manifold affecting engine performance

  • monty37
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Car engine component standards. Where can i find?

  • berko1
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ANSYS workbench-surface load parametrize

  • Sameer_1987
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Heat transfer through wall - Insulation thickness

  • klopjob
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Shear and bending of a safety pin?

  • WillemBouwer
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Mechanical System for Lifting and Lowering Weight

  • omalleyt
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Pneumatic Actuator - horizontally mounted?

  • Sudorrac
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Adjustable hood - deflector - for conveyor

  • Sudorrac
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Pneumatic actuators - locking mechanism?

  • Sudorrac
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Is my solution to this statics problem correct?

  • kbka
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What factors determine the maximum power of a 4-stroke engine per cylinder?

  • oldboyonrgv
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What is the purpose by putting 2 ball valves together? And there is a

  • Ng Soon Hao
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Long tube headers vs. short tube headers.

  • 5.0stang
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Electric Blanket for a flow rig

  • zymil
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Producing Electrical Energy from Surf: A Cylinder and Turbine

  • hisham.i
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Design Efficient Exhaust System for Project Car

  • smoque
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Continuum Mechanics Books - help

  • nanunath
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Design of a shaft subject to torsion/bending/fatigue

  • danz001
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Calculate Vertical, Radial & Horizontal Forces for Lifting Lug Design

  • zubir
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Fabricating With Bearing Question

  • average guy
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Propane: Liquid to Gas - Volume Change & Diffuse Velocity

  • Kirua
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Designing a Hybrid Engine for a Passenger Car: Where to Begin?

  • eng/mahmoud
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ANSYS - section nodes and global nodes

  • student@work
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Mounting rubber wheel on motors

  • jehan60188
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ANSYS Workbench contact metal stamping problem

  • JoelHenrik
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CNC Coordinate Measurement Machine Controller

  • Ranger Mike
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Mechatronics Student Seeking Help Identifying Device - South Africa

  • scoe
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Confirming Perpendicularity of Primary, Secondary & Tertiary Datums

  • saurya08
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How Do You Calculate the Proof Load of a Bolt?

  • araanandv2
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Calculating Pressure for Candle Compression

  • irish_enginee
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Help understanding BASIC fluid dynamics behind faraday waves

  • piareround
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ANYS Static Structural, How to simulate 'ground ?

  • LiquidTurbo
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Need help in comsol multiphysics

  • stephenzztant
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Solving for R2: Calculating Vector Cross Product

  • hatchelhoff
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Hollow Metal disc loading - the needed thickness of the disc?

  • ambroa
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Choosing a bearing design for a roller.

  • Fahlin Racing
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Why Did the Total Head Increase in My Fluid Mechanics Experiment?

  • big_bird
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Rope ascension using stored spring energy

  • jgeating
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Rotary Seal Ideas for PVC Pressure Housings Underwater

  • GoinSideways
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How can I design an affordable test rig for a wind tunnel?

  • h2chohan
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Ways of Strengthening Cantilever beams

  • FAlonso
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Heating water flowing through Copper tube

  • seanist5890
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A bit of a fun project - The claw

  • Mr.Rose
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Recommendation for mechanics software

  • davewest751
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How the distance between upper and bottom wishbone is important

  • Ikac
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Tensile Testing (Determining Young's Modulus)

  • stpmmaths
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Screw Torque Conversion for Power Modules: EE vs. ME Perspective

  • Windadct
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Questions about driving a manual car?

  • sameeralord
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Stirling Engine Help for High School Engineering Project

  • TyChi
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Hydraulic motor driven by steam/compressed air

  • mellotango
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Determine Flow rate for pipeline

  • ameeno97
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