Recent content by Tracey3

So I am stumped by why these capacitors are there, to my understanding the capacitor C3 acts as a low pass filter but then I don't quite understand the purpose of C1 and C2 as indicated on the picture.

@PhanthomJay thank you for the response. I was looking into this and it makes the most sense to me what you said. I have talked with my lecturer today and she refused to give me a direct answer but rather said that I should switch the two FOS values around and see how the Working stress changes...

I had an internship with a major missile and satellite engineering company. My mentor mentioned to me that about 10-15% of their cost comes just from trying to meet all the regulations and what he referred to as 'bureaucratic nonsense'.

Homework Statement Ok so I have been presented with a bolt which has shear and tension acting upon it. I have done my best to 'draw' and recreate the problem with the information provided. I am trying to figure out how, one would go about choosing which of the two safety factors should be used...

My old account was lost to the oblivion of the interwebs. Sooo... I am back, how could I live without this forum :DD Im still doing Mech Eng and live with my Cacti #LifeGoals