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The Urgent Humanitarian Issue Is Spiraling Liquid Fuel Costs
A couple years ago it was cheaper to get mechanical work from internal combustion than the grid. Your plug-in hybrid might not pollute the city but it was cheaper to not plug in and instead use the...
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Dish Stirling v Bio Diesel; Mechanical Work/Acre-Year
Assuming it can be made to work the yield from algae is claimed to be 30,000 gallons diesel/acre-year. This comes out to be 30 kW/acre (24/7/52). This is over 3X the gross income as growing berries so...
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PE Exam Mechanical
Hello all, anyone interested in purchasing PE Exam info in detail for Mechanical? Have sample exam and over 1600 pages of pinpointed exam material with example exam problems and solutions. Paid...
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Journal Special Issue on Control and Intelligent Systems in Humanitarian Technologies
Journal Special Issue on Control and Intelligent Systems in Humanitarian Technologies Control and Intelligent Systems An International Journal published by ACTA press established in 1972 Papers due:...
 
dynamic tension measurement?
I want to measure dynamic thread tension on an industrial sewing machine without affecting the thread tension. Is there a strain or tension gauge that can act as a spring as well? The notion being to...
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Eigenvalues and 0 mass nodes
Hi I am using ANSYS to solve for the eigenvalues of an FE model with nodes with 0 mass (that is solve the generalised eigenvalue problem Kx = lambdaMx where M has some 0s on the diagonal) Does anyone...
 
Mechanics of Wave Forces on Offshore Structures
Hi! I'm searching for belowmentioned book. Can somebody help me with it?? "Mechanics of Wave Forces on Offshore Structures" by Turgut Sarpkaya and Michaesl Isaacson Thanks in advance! Pyriel
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New Wrench
Anyone out there know of a Tool Manufacturing company that would be interested in manufacturing and marketing a new design I have for an Adjustable Wrench? Design is Patent Pending but I am unable to...
 
Pressure Vessel & Piping Design/Engineering
Hello fellow Professionals I am a Mechanical Technologist, I want to specialise in Pressure Vessel & Piping, does any one know any institution that offers training in this or does one have to gain...
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scissor lift design help
Anyone have any info or links to scissor lift design. I'm looking at lifting 400lbs total to a height of 7ft with base of 66 " by 36". Any ideas? Preferably with a lead screw for lifting or...
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removable strain gauge to measure strain in band
How do you make a strain gauge device that measures the strain (change in length) of a metal band by clamping the gauge device onto the metal band. The gauge would be an analog bridge strain gauge...
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neutral axis of a non-symetrical shape
I remember that it is very easy to find the neutral axis of a symmetric beam cross-section, just locating the centroid and intersecting a line of symmetry. However, I want to find the neutral axis of...
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In-situ stiffness and mass
x-posting. The question here is how many methods available to evaluate in-situ stiffness and mass of well constructed structres and solids. Stiffness is the most important property to analyze...
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CFP - www.ieem2008.org (industrial eng & management conference)
2008 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management Singapore, 8-11 December 2008 The International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management...
 
The New X-Prize...again
The new X-Prize is for a car that gets 100 miles-per-gallon and like the previous X-Prize is for ten million dollars... Now there are a lot of rules but in general the car must get 100 MPG, it must...
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