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The stress in copper and steel parallel compound members [closed]
Came across this question and just needed abit of help undertanding how i should go about this question
I have also attempted to solve it to the best of my ability but im stuck.
A concrete column of ...
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Why do wind power plants have just 3 blades? [duplicate]
Why do wind power plants have just 3 blades? It seems that adding more blades would increase the area that interacts with the wind and gather more energy.
(Image from Wikipedia.)
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What lifting mechanism is likely to have the best energy recovery ratio?
Suppose I was designing an apparatus which needed to lift 250kg 5cm high, hold it there for a few seconds, and then lower the object back to the original height. Such a process would need to be ...
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How to calculate mechanical advantage of a worm gear?
How to calculate mechanical advantage of a worm gear?
My textbook simply use the turn ratio as the mechanical advantage, but I'm not sure how that works.
My thinking: If the worm has a radius of ...
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Why did increasing the Ackermann geometry in my race car make it faster in corners?
Ackermann geometry is used to account for the different radius arcs that the front tires follow when the steering wheel is turned from center. It's often expressed as a percentage: e.g. 25% Ackermann, ...
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Measuring vibration and converting to force (N)
The test is:
To have a rotating machine, bolted into a factory floor.
To measure the vibration on 3 axis (output of accelerometers can be acceleration or velocity in $\mathrm{m/s}$ or ...
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Shear Flow corresponding to Eccentric Shear Force of a Closed-section Beam (Structural Analysis - Mechanics)
Been stumped with this question for way too long... its a beam with a thin-walled rectangular cross-section, and a shear force is acting at a distance from the shear center. I know my decomposition of ...
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Internal moment in the hull of a pressure vessel
This question is related to the course structural analysis. As part of our exam grade every student has been given different multiple homework assignments which we have to solve.
One of the problems ...
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How to estimate the Kolmogorov length scale
My understanding of Kolmogorov scales doesn't really go beyond this poem:
Big whirls have little whirls that feed on their velocity, and little whirls have lesser whirls and so on to viscosity. ...
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Can someone explain the Hall effect thruster to me?
I am in high school, and am doing a major research project on Russia. Part of that is a section on the space race, and ion engines/hall effect engines have come up several times. Unfortunately, Google ...
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Optical refocusing efficiency
What is the material for optical focusing that produces the less diffraction losses?
Suppose one have a sequence of serial optical elements $R$ that keep refocusing a beam of collimated light, each a ...
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Fluid flow through a diverging pipe
Relevant diagram loosely based on my real problem:
Description of problem: A fan creates a pressure sink that drives fluid flow through a gently diverging pipe (please note that the diagram is not ...
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Compressible fluid flow through a branched pipe junctions
Backdrop: Designing a dust extraction system (LEV) with a branched junction.
What principles allow for the calculation of volume flow rate and pressure at the inlets if the volume flow rate and ...
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Air Turbulence and DIY laminar flow hoods
So for years on the mycology, plant tissue culture, and DIY laboratory websites there has been this ongoing debate on how to achieve laminar flow in a home built laminar flow hood.
Flow hood link!
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Does graphene actually remain strong for macroworld engineering?
I heard that people envision strong structural materials made out of graphene, but I heard it may weaken when being stack in layers. Is graphene viable for macroworld structural engineering or is it ...
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Amount of energy to separate Gases - relationship to concentration
I want to understand the efficiencies of separating mixed gases, and for that I want to understand the thermodynamic limit case. Looking at the wikipedia page for entropy of mixing, I find the ...
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Total Mechanical Advantage
How do you find the net Mechanical Advantage (MA) of two joint machines. Do you add or multiply the individual MA?
Suppose I have two sets of wheel and axle connected by a fixed pulley. Each of the ...
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Twist angle for Valve
I have to design a gearbox to operate a ball valve. The gearbox output shaft has to design on the basis of torsional rigidity. What angle should be considered for twist angle ?? and why ??
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Torque required to rotate Drum [closed]
What Torque will require to rotate a Drum about horizontal axis XX.
Drum is filled with industrial Oil.
Weight of filled drum is $W=300 kg$.
Length of Drum $(L)=900mm$
and Diameter of Drum is ...
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Torque required to rotate sand mixer [closed]
the given data is-
Mixer having one impeller(rotor) rotating in horizontal plane about vertical axis.
capacity of mixer to design $C = 250kg$
rotor dia. $D = 45" = 1143mm$
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How to determine whether a large container is air-tight?
In constructing a kitchen-waste digester at home, I use a 50 Litre HDPE drum. The base of the drum is holed with a plug fitted to allow drainage when necessary.
The top has two openings - one for ...
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Why are precise frequency standards important in the telecommunications industry? [closed]
I understand why having a precise definition of time can be very useful for navigation purposes. The GPS system works using the simple equation $d=ct$, where $c$ is the speed of light, so the ...
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Internal forces in a truss and its geometry
I'm to work out the internal forces in a truss, but I can't get my head around the geometry of the truss itself. I'm starting to think there may have been information on the diagram which I missed. ...
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How to interpret a negative failure rate?
In statistical engineering the "hazard rate" of a distribution is defined as:
$$r(x)=\frac{f(x)}{1-F(x)}$$
where $f(x)$ and $F(x)$ are the PDF and CDF. Basically $r(x)$ is the odds that, having ...
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What properties would the ideal material for spacecraft construction possess?
Assuming we develop the capability to send a robot to study Gliese 518, or any of the Earth-like planets discovered in the neighbourhood; the spacecraft would need to travel through the Solar System ...
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propeller flying physics for the layman
I'm starting a (quad?)copter build, and i can find plenty of knowledge about stabilizing the craft and things related to gyroscopy.
but there's absolutely zero information on things that help me ...
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Which are some insects showing most impressive feats of engineering? [closed]
Would prefer one or two examples with lots of in-depth info.
Examine it from an engineering point of view.
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Would it be possible for geophysicists/geoengineers to develop an artificial way of trapping carbon in the ocean?
There's a mechanism by which the southern ocean sequesters carbon from the atmosphere. It happens when strong winds displace a large slab of surface water, accumulating in a specific region where the ...
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The most efficient Fan Blade Design
What could be the most efficient fan blade design? There are three main factors for a good fan: one is speed at which air is circulated; second,the volume of air it can circulate; and the third is ...
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Do processes $P\propto\frac{1}{V^2}$, $P\propto\frac{1}{V^3}$, $P\propto\frac{1}{V^4}$, etc., exist in the real world?
Is there any real process in which $PV^n=C$ where $P,V$ stands for pressure, volume respectively. $C$ is a constant and $n$ is a positive integer?
I am familiar with Boyle's law that states that ...
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How is pool boiling dealt with by today's process design methods?
Designing evaporators and industrial reboilers often requires at initial stages of dimensioning (i.e. when the support from a finite element software tool to model the system of interest, isn't yet ...
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Can I study Quantum Computing or Quantum Mechanics with an Engineering background?
Sir,
I am studying Electrical & Elctronics Engg. now. I wish to pursue Quantum Mechanics or Quantum Computing as my research subject. Is it possible for me to do my M.Tech. & then pursue ...
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Angles on swing sets
I'm building a swing set for my children. All of the designs I've seen involve building two A-frames and connecting them at the top with a crossbar/beam from which hang the swings. The A-frames are ...
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Can anyone estimate what proportion of water remains after I flush a toilet?
Imagine I have a clean toilet with some amount of water in the bowl. When I flush the toilet much of that water will be displaced by the tank's water. I want to work out (or model really) what amount ...
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How is extra information encoded in digital radio?
Earlier today, I was listening to my digital radio, and was intrigued as to how they are able to encode the information displayed on the LCD screen (which was basically a short string of text giving a ...
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How to decide velocity profile for two stepper motor in robot driving
A robot has 2 parallel driving wheel. I don't know the friction of the ground surface. However, I can set the acceleration, starting velocity, ending velocity. The velocity profile has to be ...
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Why don't Turbojet engines use the De Laval Nozzle?
Why don't Turbojet engines use the De Laval Nozzle?
In fact, it seems that in a typical turbojet, the output nozzle contracts, not expands.
As the temperature of exhaust gases is high -- it should ...
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A conceptual problem with Euler-Bernoulli beam theory and Euler buckling
Euler-Bernoulli beam theory states that in static conditions the deflection $w(x)$ of a beam relative to its axis $x$ satisfies
$$EI\frac{\partial^4}{\partial x^4}w(x)=q(x)\ \ \ \ (1)$$
where $E$ is ...
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Bridge Trusses?
Which kind of truss would produce the best result (aka. best distribution of force):
i) An equilateral, isosceles or a scalene triangle
ii) 3 small triangles or 2 big triangles (the overall masses of ...
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Why aren't stratospheric balloons compressing their helium to descent?
I can't find a reference of a working stratospheric balloon mounted with a compressor to control its altitude. Is there a big physical difficulty (such as compressor weight/power ratio, or power ...
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How do I calculate DC motor speed for a given load?
Suppose I have a robot of a given mass, and I'm choosing between 2 different wheels and 2 different motors to put on it. For each wheel I have the diameter, and for each motor I know the stall torque ...
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Equations instead of psychrometric charts
I want to create a program that will accurately simulate a condensor. I want to use the data in psychrometric charts. But I cannot and hence want to use equations that show similar data. Any idea ...
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Is the EmDrive, or “Relativity Drive” possible?
In 2006, New Scientist magazine published an article titled Relativity drive: The end of wings and wheels1 [1] about the EmDrive [Wikipedia] which stirred up a fair degree of controversy and some ...
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Water flushed down, water pumped up (in buildings)
I live in a tall building (20 floors) on a mountain. Because the water pressure from the water company is not enough, there is a water pump at the last floor which is activated each time someone is ...
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For how long can we make an air balloon stay flying via remotely controlled heat system?
I wonder how a function $$f=f(h, m_{\mathrm empty}, V_{max}, T_{h}), $$ with the top height $h$, the empty mass $m$, the maximum volume $V_{max}$, and the temperature of the heater $T_{h}$ would look ...
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How to calculate the dependency of speed and weight of a servo? [closed]
Here is a digital servo:
Servo
By using the information of details of that thing what is the way to calculate the dependency of the speed of the movement of the car if the load upon the servo is N kg ...
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How does the shape (form; not cross-section) of a spring impact performance?
Cylindrical compression springs are everywhere and then some applications choose other forms like rectangular or unique polygonal form. What impact does the form of a compression spring have and how ...
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How do I find the Gain of this Transfer Function
I found the transfer function for the spring mass damper system to be
$$G(s)=\frac{1}{ms^{2}+bs+k},$$
and now I need to find the gain of this transfer function. I know that the gain is ...
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Can a the volume flow through a positive displacement pump be reliably measured by tracking revolutions of the drive shaft? [closed]
The question refers to non-compressible fluids.
I'm mostly thinking about monopumps (excentric screw pumps), but this also should apply to any type of gear pumps as well, possibly also to piston ...
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Are quantum mechanics calculations useful for engineering?
I heard it's is pretty tough to get results for more than a few quantum particles. Are quantum mechanical calculations useful at all for any technology that is being sold?
Or do they use ...
