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🏗️ Understanding Stress and Strain: How Materials Behave Under Load
Materials play a crucial role in engineering, construction, and manufacturing. When subjected to external forces,…
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Pressurized Containers – ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code
We Knew that the overpressure devices that can keep the pressure from building to the…
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Mechanical Engineering, Focus on Statics
Statics is the study of how forces are transmitted to and throughout stationary objects. Let’s learn…
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Kinematics of Machines in Mechanical Engineering
When we refer to the study of the kinematics of machines, we’re referring to the…
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Mechanical Power Transmission – The Centrifugal Clutch Feels The Heat
Ever get out of bed on a cold winter morning and feel as stiff as…
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More Pulleys Increase Mechanical Advantage
Last time we saw how compound pulleys within a dynamic lifting scenario result in increased…
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Rope Length Tradeoff in a Compound Pulley
We’re all familiar with the phrase, “too much of a good thing.” As a professional engineer,…
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Mechanical Overkill, an Undesirable Tradeoff in Compound Pulleys
We’ve been discussing the mechanical advantage that compound pulleys provide to humans during lifting operations and last time we…
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Friction Reduces Pulleys’ Mechanical Advantage
The presence of friction in mechanical designs is as guaranteed as conflict in a good…
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Friction Results in Heat and Lost Work Within a Compound Pulley
Last time we saw how the presence of friction reduces mechanical advantage in an engineering scenario utilizing…