Recent content by JCJones

Sorry to bump this but if no one has any ideas, can someone suggest a book or resource that might explain what channel frequency class is and how it will affect the specification of transducers?

http://www.roymech.co.uk/Useful_Tables/Screws/Bolted_Joint.html Pretty top website for anything like this.

Hi, I'm a Mechanical Engineering student and the voodoo that is electronics/ electrical engineering baffles me. However a portion of my final year project requires me to specify certain transducers and a data acquisition system. At the minute I am trying to specify an accelerometer...

Cheers, Yeah I realized I wasn't taking enough care of my directions with the moments. Thanks for your help. And I'll be sure to post it there next time!

For a piece of coursework I have to design a shaft for a windturbine. The shaft has a load on one end due to the rotor blades and a load on the opposite end due to a sprocket which is chain linked to a generator. The supports are bearings in between the two loads, as shown in this drawing...