Questions tagged [mechanical]
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How do rotate a picture on a wall once every 24 hours?
I have a picture with various day and night scenes that I would like to hang on a wall and have automatically and uniformly rotated once every 24 hours. The picture is roughly 55cm in diameter, 2cm ...
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What strapping mechanism is this?
What should I google to find the strap from the picture?
It looks like a screw is used to tension the strap, which is exactly what I need. I've already spent some time trying to find a manufacturer ...
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Force Required To Stop A Freely Rotating Wheel With Attached Falling Object With A Spring
I have a wheel with a diameter of 2m and a weight of 67kg. The wheel has a radius of gyration of 0.82m. From this wheel a weight of 35kg is suspended. The weight will fall for 10m and accelerate the ...
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I want to cover a circular area with a sheet that is rolled onto a curved metal rod
My challenge is that the sheet gets bent in places around the rod making extension challenging. Another challenge is that since the metal rod is curved it turns in an awkward way that I want to ...
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How to attach plates (my design) to the stator core of the machine more efficiently and precisely?
I am working on an electrical engineering project. However, I have come across a specific mechanical engineering problem. I have attached an image to describe what I want to do. I have primarily a ...
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Kindly explain this graph which is related to internal combustion engines
Hello,
I am not getting this graph which is related to the Internal Combustion Engine.
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Need help analyzing torque transfer and slippage condition between parts
I have a scenario where Plate A (light blue) shown in the image below is being pressed against two different plates that are in contact with different sections of Plate A. I would like to know which ...
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New to AutoCAD, trying to accomplish a simple task of trying to simulate how much force can a U channel withstand
Sorry if my question or parts of it seem vague or stupid, I'm fairly new to mechanical engineering. I'm part of a team that is building a simulator platform and I am mostly at the helm of the software ...
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Wind Turbines on Cars used for Aerodynamic Braking
After a lot of research, I have found that people have been continually claiming that Wind turbines on Cars would not help whatsoever due to the Law of conservation of Energy. While this statement is ...
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Motor for a sukkah rooflight
im designing a motor for a roof light but will need to be disengaged from the motor and be able to open and close without any electricity.
any ideas would be greatly appreciated
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Mechanical linkage
I am not an mechanical engineer and I have a question about this laboratory rocker (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2948680/files).
As I wish to reduce the height of the Model_Base.stl by half, by ...
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Characteristics of a smooth belt
I want to replace a cylindrical pulley, so I came across a component called a smooth belt.
Now this thing came with many differenent variations, from 2.00" up ...
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How to determine whether a threaded rod will rotate under load
A part of a structure I am designing incorporates a large threaded rod (1") diameter mounted vertically both for structural strength and for the potential to adjust the height of the top mounted ...
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Frames and Statics Question
this is an image describing an exam question I have to practice on, and I am so stuck.
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Building Equations of Motion
The following figures represent a model of a building, can someone help me, extract the newton equations of motion and determine the degrees of freedom.
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