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Questions within the problem domain of mechanical engineering. Mechanical Engineering can be a broad field; consider choosing more specific tags if they apply.
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13 asked this week, 56 this month
Study and applications of electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. Use this tag when someone who has trained as an electrical engineer is likely to be able to answer your question.
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25 asked this month, 179 this year
Questions related to the integrity, design requirements, or analysis of structures.
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6 asked this week, 15 this month
Questions relating to fluids at rest (fluid statics) or the forces and effects of fluids in motion (fluid dynamics).
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14 asked this month, 146 this year
Use for questions about designing, manufacturing or synthesizing engineered materials or about the properties of specific materials. Questions concerning common construction materials, such as wood, s…
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7 asked this week, 19 this month
Questions that fall into the problem domain of civil engineering or one of its sub-disciplines. Questions about buildings or other structures could usually use the "structural-engineering" tag also.
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7 asked this month, 91 this year
Questions about the models and theories of control engineering and the application of control theory to design systems with desired behaviors.
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10 asked this month, 124 this year
Questions relating to the various laws of thermodynamics, transformation or movement of a form of energy to another form, primarily but not limited to heating or cooling of a fluid.
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Questions regarding motors. All types of motors, their gearboxes, how to drive an electrical motor etc.
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the determination of the effects of loads on physical structures and their components. Structures subject to this type of analysis include all that must withstand loads, such as…
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Questions relating to the transfer of heat via the mechanism of convection, conduction, or radiation, in forms of systems (or your device) attempting to obtain thermodynamic equilibrium with another s…
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Questions pertaining to pressurized systems and their applications, from containment to system losses to using as a benchmark for measurement.
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7 asked this month, 43 this year
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for questions within the problem domain of chemical engineering.
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Questions about using applied mechanics to model engineering problems.
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branch of engineering concerned with the analysis of forces and moments on physical systems in static equilibrium.
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Questions about the theory and applications of structural elements designed to resist bending.
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Questions relating to or the engineering application of a device that must withstand a loading via deflection, stresses, resistance to buckling, or natural frequencies.
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For questions related to the alloy steel: Its production, material properties and applications. The carbon content of steel is between 0.002% and 2.1% by weight for plain iron-carbon alloys.
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Measurements, instrumentation, calibration and metrology.
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the primary branch of engineering concerned with the research, design, development, construction, and testing of aircraft and spacecraft.
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Questions about the dynamics of a system. Currently there is a very large scope ranging from from dynamics in mechanics, vehicle and flight dynamics, to system dynamics and fluid dynamics.
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12 asked this month, 43 this year
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For questions about the design, classification and working principle of pumps. A pump is a device that moves fluids (liquids or gases), or sometimes slurries, by mechanical action.
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7 asked this month, 44 this year
for questions about numerical or analytical modeling and simulation of engineered systems.
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For engineering questions involving mathematics. For pure mathematics problems, please visit our sister site Mathematics Stack Exchange.
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Questions about the flow and use of fluids.
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