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Thank you Windadct for the quantified examples!

Thank you very much anorlunda, Borek and Rive!

Hi! How does progress in semiconductor transistors such as Si to SiC or GaN, MOSFET to FinFET, 10nm to 2nm, etc. improves the performance of a controller such as the ABS, ESP, ESC, ... of a car? And how much is the impact of transistor technology progress on such a controller (compared to...

Thank you Dr. D and hutchphd!

jrmichler, Thank you very much for your swift reply!

Hi everybody, Academic papers in mechanical engineering use often lumped-element (or lumped-parameter) models such as a typical quarter car model. However, books about the (mechanical) engineering design methodologies (such as by authors Dieter, Shigley, or Pahl-Beitz) seem to not mention this...

Hi gmax137, Thank you for your reply. Do you maybe have an idea of which areas within mechanism design or structural design will be most demanded and which areas would rather be automated? (I expect that a big portion of structural and mechanism design could be automated with for example...

Hi Klotza, Thanks a lot for your insight!

Hi, Which technology specializations within the mechanical engineering domain will be most demanded in the future? (I am looking for different technologies rather than for applications enabled by the technology. For example not 'robotics', but rather the technologies used for robotics) Thanks...

Thank you both for your reply. Following your answers, how do I calculate the stress during resonance? For example, a typical cantilever beam as on the picture below, the bending stress in point B due to a cyclic force P is calculated as M(L)*y/I, with M(L) the bending moment in B (= P*L), y...

Hi, What is the effect of the load cycle frequency on the SN curve (Wöhler curve)? Especially when the frequency matches the natural frequency of the component/material? Instinctively, I would think that at the natural frequency the number of load cycles until fracture is lower than at any...

Thank you for your fast confirmation

A vehicle loses Kinetic Energy because of aerodynamic resistance. But taken into account the conservation of energy, to which type of energy is the "lost" Kinetic Energy transformed? Is this Kinetic Energy transformed into heat just like friction transforms the kinetic energy of a sliding object...

Hi, I am a mechanical engineer and I want to learn more about Robotics. Can you please recommend me some (academic) books? Are there some books seen as "the bible" for robotic engineers or books that "any robotics engineer should have"? Thank you very much in advance!

Hi! I am looking for a textbook that explains/describes for moving mechanical structures (such as linkage mechanism, engines, ... and not buildings, bridges, ...) the stresses, deformation, wear, temperature change, ... due to operating. E.g. Linkage mechanism: what are/defines the stresses...