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    How Can Engineering Students Gain Practical Skills on a Budget?

    Maybe if you can get a student job at some company that would help you out a bit :)
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    Deriving Actuator Force Equations for Scissor Lift Design

    Well i have already the basic design ready in CREO for the scissor. So I wanted to know the force that would act in the cylinder. I was hoping by simplifying the system it could be viewed as a static simple system, because the scissor system was laying flat down when collapsed and then just view...
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    Deriving Actuator Force Equations for Scissor Lift Design

    The system will work with hydraulics. The attachment close to the center of the scissor is attached through brackets that are welded on a middle beam between the scissor arms. This bracket is in front and above the center of the scissor arms so lift can happen. The other cylinder end is also...
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    Deriving Actuator Force Equations for Scissor Lift Design

    Red Line is the cylinder. As shown on the attachment in my first post there are two cylinder fastening eyes where the cylinder is fastened. The scissor lift starts from collapsed state as I have tried to show in my first post attachment. When it raises, the left side of the lift moves towards...
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    Deriving Actuator Force Equations for Scissor Lift Design

    No one has any ideas?
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    Deriving Actuator Force Equations for Scissor Lift Design

    Just to be clear. I am not trying to get any free stuff[close to getting my diploma...) :) But I understand you and its fine. I have added the pictures in the PDF hope it helps. Note: X1 is known and alpha to. Edit: And as far as i se i have to many unknown compared to equations. So I am...
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    Deriving Actuator Force Equations for Scissor Lift Design

    Hi. I am currently working on a scissor lift design. I'm having some trouble deriving the equations for the actuator force for some reason. Think I'm getting blind on this ATM or something :P. Anyways if someone could help a bit id appreciate it. [I have derived equations I'm just not sure I...
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    Merely a question concerning elementary calculation of stiffness

    I think this is what you seek(se attachment). Might not be this. Not my strongest area. The formulas i can't remember. Anyway hope you can use atleast some of it.
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    Optimizing Truss Design for Pipeline Support: Initial Analysis Methods

    Glad it helped you. :)
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    Is Dynamics important for Fluid Mechanics?

    If you can squeeze a thermodynamics course in it probably would be good. I had thermodynamics and Fluid mechanics at the same time and i wish Id had thermo prior to fluid. It made things harder. Had dynamics prior to these courses. :)
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    Optimizing Truss Design for Pipeline Support: Initial Analysis Methods

    Hi. Im not sure if i understand the Fc. Anyway the simplets way i think i would look at is this way(se attachement). Else i would think you would need to know the moment at the fixed point of the pipe and length and own weight and so on the more stuff could be calculated. Hope it helped you...
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    How hard is it to study mechanical engineering

    As Simon said its good you know now. I myself spend 1.5 year gettin better at math, physics and chemistry before i started. And yes it only gets more complicated. But If you want to you will overcome it :) I know I did. I am startin on my bs thesis in september. Oh and btw I am from Denmark so I...
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    Optimizing Truss Design for Pipeline Support: Initial Analysis Methods

    How do u get 93?? How is ur FBD?