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Frictional Pressure Loss in a Pipeline

In engineering, fluid flow and programming is a big deal. A thorough understanding of fluid flow fundamentals is a requirement ...
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Stress Concentration Factors: A Fundamental Example

Thus far, we have applied fundamental formulas to determine the stresses in different structural members neglecting high stress regions. In ...
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Stresses in a Tapered Beam

The stress analysis of a tapered or varying cross section beam is slightly different than a uniform beam when it ...
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What is Structural Stiffness??

Anyone that has done finite element analysis has been exposed to stiffness matrices. Each term in a stiffness matrix represents ...
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Indeterminate Beam Structures to the First Degree

A beam is considered indeterminate if there a more unknowns than equilibrium equations. When this occurs, one can feel at ...
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Material Balance of A Dry Gas Reservoir

A dry gas reservoir is a reservoir that contains only gas. Further, the produced fluid is only gas, i.e. no ...
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Structural Analysis Of Systems under Inertial Loads

In college we focus on finding the internal loads of static systems. We rarely are asked to find the internal ...
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Material Balance of Wet Gas Reservoir

A wet gas reservoir is a reservoir that contains only gas. However as the gas rises to the surface, liquid ...
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Material Balance of a Gas Condensate Reservoir

A gas condensate reservoir is a reservoir that drops out liquid condensate in the reservoir as the reservoir falls below ...
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