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Everything else being equal, the rod doesn't 'know' which end is having torque applied and which is fixed, thus it can break at either end.

Yes - prove yourself. Come up with a design idea, and people will take it from there.

Yes - round up

You are not wasting your time - nothing is faster for presenting or explaining an initial idea than pen and paper.

For a 1st year I would recommend MathCAD

Quality control - for measuring tolerances on finished products I think

http://www.et.web.mek.dtu.dk/Coolpack/UK/Index.html During my thermo. class I used CoolPack exclusively - It is a Danish developed application that will draw the diagrams for different fluids. T.s, H.s, Log-P.H etc. And it IS in English :)

Doesn't that entirely depend on the part and whether mass/gravity should be taken into account? I wouldn't want to neglect weight if doing a static analysis on a bridge :)

You'll want to look up De Laval nozzle for starters, here's the wiki link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Laval_nozzle

GMSH has this capability, don't ask me how to obtain it though. http://geuz.org/gmsh/gallery/lenna.gif

A follow-up question from me: Why does it seem like pretty much every mesher aims to create quads/hexahedrons, and from my own experience quads/hexahedrons blows away triangles/tetrahedrons in terms of density/precision of result; fewer quads/hexa are required to reach a comparable analytical...

Total area that comes in (effective) contact with the flowing air. You'd be surprised how small the 0.64m² finned radiator will end up being.

Yet you lived to tell the tale. Perhaps that indicates something to the OP :approve:

Im actually also in the process of gathering said information, but for some reason it is really hard to come by - so if anyone could lend me a hand :)

http://www.roymech.co.uk/Useful_Tables/Matter/shear_tensile.htm Have a look at this table. /C