GENERAL ENGINEERING
This quantity is defined as force divided by area.
What is stress?
This manufacturing process removes material using a rotating cutting tool.
What is milling?
This transport phenomenon describes movement caused by concentration gradients.
What is diffusion?
This method analyzes internal member forces in statically determinate trusses by isolating joints.
What is the Method of Joints?
This mechanical failure occurs due to repeated cyclic loading below the ultimate strength of a material.
What is fatigue failure?
This law states that if two thermodynamic systems are both in thermal equilibrium with a third system, then the two systems are in thermal equilibrium with each other.
What is zeroth law of thermodynamics?
This heat exchanger configuration allows the greatest temperature efficiency by flowing fluids in opposite directions.
What is counterflow heat exchanger?
This law states that gas pressure is inversely proportional to volume at constant temperature.
What is Boyle’s Law?
This parameter represents the ratio of lateral strain to longitudinal strain.
What is Poisson’s Ratio?
This energy conversion device transforms chemical energy directly into electrical energy through electrochemical reactions.
What is a fuel cell?
This theorem states that the work done by external forces equals the change in kinetic energy.
What is the Work-Energy Theorem?
This cycle represents the idealized operation of a jet engine.
What is the Brayton cycle?
This equation relates reaction rate constants to temperature.
What is the Arrhenius Equation?
This failure mode in columns occurs due to lateral deflection under compressive loading.
What is buckling?
In electrochemistry, batteries generate electricity through this type of reaction.
What is a REDOX reaction?
This engineering analysis method divides complex structures into smaller elements for numerical solutions.
What is the Finite Element Method?
This type of rolling-element bearing uses balls to maintain the separation between the bearing races to reduce rotational friction and support radial and axial loads.
What is a ball bearing?
This is the strongest type of covalent chemical bond, formed by head-on overlapping between atomic orbitals.
What is a Sigma Bond?
This hydraulic phenomenon occurs when flowing water suddenly stops, causing a pressure surge.
What is water hammer?
This defect in crystalline solids occurs when atoms are missing from lattice sites.
What is a vacancy defect?