Using Stirling Engines to Recover Waste Heat from Industries
Exciting new research has expanded the capabilities of the Stirling engine, a once-forgotten industrial engine. The device has many uses, including …
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Machine and Mechanism Design
Showing guides and explainers filed under Machine and Mechanism Design.
The World's Biggest Machine
This article provides a description of the world’s largest machines, including record-holders such as the largest truck and the largest rocket, …
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Horse Power vs Torque - Can Torque to Horsepower be Calculated?
At first glance, torque-power charts seem to show that at a certain engine speed, the two curves cross. Does this really happen? Is it a magic point …
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Optical Dynamic Detection of Bombs or ODD – An Explosive Detection Technique Superior to Ion Mobility Spectroscopy
Optical dynamic detection of bombs, or ODD, is the latest explosive detection technique. This article will discuss how the optical dynamic detection …
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Linear Induction Motor Research
This article is based upon the different research into linear induction motors currently being carried out worldwide. It also describes the present …
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Helical Compression Spring Calculations – Design, Equations & an Example
Various compression spring calculations are required now and then by engineers. This article covers five types of important helical compression spring …
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Who Invented the Internal Combustion Engine?
Curious about who invented the internal combustion engine? Read this to learn a little history of the engine and its working, and then about the man …
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BLDC Motor Back EMF Explained
Brushless DC motors (BLDC) are used where there are limitations in the use of the brush-type DC motors. In this article we discuss how it is possible …
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The Production and Uses of 8640 Alloy Steel
This article describes the production and uses of AISI 8640 alloy steel.
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Elements of Vector Analysis - Gradient, Divergence, and Curl
Vector calculus offers methods important to engineering fields for understanding and manipulating vector fields and scalar fields.
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