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Concentrated pressure drop in tube having 90 round bend

  • alshourbagy
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Power Transmition System Problem

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Low Budget Baler and High Friction Ejecting

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Lead Block inside 52' US-type Trailer Experiement

  • OctaneMaestro
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How Quickly Will Water Drain from a Tank with a 13mm Hole?

  • robhowe
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Why the engine spins faster when I accelerate?

  • Tonhovsk
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Does colder intake charge really work on Dyno?

  • Buzzworks
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Compressive stress on piece of rock

  • vtmike
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Deflection and stress formulae for HDPE plates under hydrostatic pressure

  • Antony S
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Compressed Air Engine for a cycle

  • thehitchhiker
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Steps to design a gear reducer from input and output speed

  • JJLIM90
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Stress, Deflection for a simply supported beam with UDL applied

  • buytree
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Navier Stokes Equation Derivation and Inertial Forces

  • Red_CCF
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Variable expansion chamber for 23cc 2-stroke engine

  • Ayrity
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Real-world isentropic efficiencies for compressors and nozzles?

  • ReaverKS
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Thermodynamics: P,V,T graphs and other misc. questions.

  • fractal01
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Gravitational Vortex Powerplant

  • charlestchan
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Calculating Exit Temperature of a Fan Given its CFM and Blade Size

  • math111
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Predicting water volume in tank draining through viscous pipe

  • Zaxo3000
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How come a liquids dynamic viscosity is not indicative of flowrate?

  • Zaxo3000
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Small electric motor that can be plugged into a car power adapter

  • wyllisx1
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Pickup truck dollying multiple other pickup trucks

  • OctaneMaestro
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Delaying Autoignition: 10:1 Air-Petrol Mix at 20°C

  • daveyjones97
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Ansys Rigid Body Motion - Static Structural

  • jmart157
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Can someone say me what is the advantage of

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Sizing steps in sloped pipe to eliminate expansion loops

  • thearny2
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Prerequisite knowledge for intro thermodyanmics

  • anonymity
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Gear mechanism and wheel arrangement for reduction of fuel consumption

  • joeldsouza
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Multiple integral to find the contact surface area of a bolt thread

  • Action_Man
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Lateral acceleration definition when banking

  • ihardtail
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Marine Boiler-safe working pressure after finding pitting marks

  • renjith_p
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Can a side spoiler reduce tire load in a car turn?

  • mark77
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Solar Powered Car Interior Ventilator

  • Astra
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Can you use a Railgun to blast objects into orbit or reduce fuel costs?

  • CuriousNotion
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Fan power and fan heat gain/generation

  • momomomoses
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What is this rusty metal object marked MAE 213?

  • fd_colorado
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How much horsepower is needed to generate a given amount of kilowatts?

  • jacques dichi
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What is the life (in cycles) for a hydraulic cylinder

  • morfzcspls
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Calculating Bending Moment of Pinned Beam: Is it Negative?

  • smell5
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Relation between flowrate and butterfly valve opening

  • balotpinoy
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Eplenation with Load Transfer on Car Turning/ Acceleration

  • mark77
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How to Determine Volume Airflow Rate for CTIS Head Loss Calculations?

  • Trigger32
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Spiral plate heat exchanger with 400°C temperature difference

  • egymeda
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Threshold speed in wind turbine. Is it dependent on frictional resistance?

  • chetanladha
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How Accurate Can Static Pressure Measurement Be?

  • dries
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Which Engine Type Should Car Manufacturers and Buyers Choose?

  • darknyte
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Are trucks more efficient than cars?

  • Somes J
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How effective are materials for good wear in a dry-running air motor?

  • Mike_In_Plano
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Adding distance to a spherical projectile by use of backspin

  • Agnostic
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How Do You Connect and Operate a Vacuum Pump?

  • strong_eagle
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Mechanical engineering technologist

  • timgkelly
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Radial pressrue given lateral strain

  • mdergance3
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Self-locking nut run-on torque measurement method

  • stan19
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Fan failure and yield strength

  • GillJatt
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Heat loss whilst in steady state

  • smithy360
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Understanding Pump Capacity at 30m Head

  • balotpinoy
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What will I learn in a dynamics and Newton's laws course?

  • Ing.
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What is the difference between dynamic creep and fatigue?

  • dental guy
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Calculating Heat Transfer Requirements for Steel Wall

  • math111
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Simple differential vacuum question

  • TommyC
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Estimation of residual stress by finite element analysis

  • meetsrivatsan
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Applying the Kutzbach Gruebler criterion to a pantograph

  • amrbekhit
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Induction heating modeling in Ansys

  • Zeekar
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Rail transportation, train weight to passenger weight, reduce how much?

  • Spinnor
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Compression Fittings VS. Weld Fittings

  • ameeno97
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Windows ALT-NUMBERPAD characters

  • Bandit127
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Calculating Reaction Forces on Symmetrical Beam

  • lottedx
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Molding Plastic - Can This Thing Be Done?

  • Blokle
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How to predict the volume of a tank of water at any time? (fluid motion)

  • Zaxo3000
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Wanted to designed a 5k Watt Wind Turbine

  • shahrukhzafar
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Why is the Total Reaction Force Zero in My Ansys Hoop Analysis?

  • mcan884
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Solar-Based Project: Making a Steam Engine to Generate Power

  • jack001
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Pressure drop across butterfly valves

  • matheus_carva
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Cold Turbofan Concept (Fluid Flow Concern)

  • rockyroad_us
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Hi guys ,I have to give a presentation on UAV's ,i have some

  • Mechaniac
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Why can't I get a good fit using Levenberg-Marquardt and golden section search?

  • a.mlw.walker
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Do Engineering Students run autocad on their own computer?

  • Goopy17
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Questions about stroked A084 surplus engine

  • Morgan3
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Scissor linkage: dynamic analysis

  • serbring
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Roller Bearing Specs: Load Capacity, Size, Friction Coefficient

  • gloo
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Calculating Forces Acting on 4 Spur Gears in a Machine

  • Mohhid786
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How to make a motorized pounding mallet

  • Klunk
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Low torque homemade lathe-type machine

  • mtranter
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Planning on Mechanical Engineering or Aeronautics.

  • magimag
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Joining a base/foot to a leg without welding

  • CrossMMAFit
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How to find the maximum rpm of the solid shaft that has a ring mounted on it?

  • a.googoodolls
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What does a clutch in a manual car do and how it works?

  • sameeralord
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Understanding Transmission Design: Connecting RPM from Gearbox to Sprocket

  • tebrown3
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Local bending stress calculation in long beams

  • guideonl
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How do I calculate thermal conductance for a system with multiple materials?

  • ruzfactor
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Heat transfer problem solution needed for a circular co-ordinate.

  • nafiz27me
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Calculating Displacement of Robotic Arm Parts in Ansys Workbench

  • panthalas
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Variable viscosity in the Navier Stokes equations

  • hoomanya
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