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Mechanical Calculators

Practical tools for pumps, rotating equipment, heat, and general mechanical engineering calculations.

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Maximum deflection and bending moment of a simply supported beam under a centre point load or a UDL, with an L/ratio serviceability check.

beam deflection
simply supported
bending moment

Size a heat exchanger by the LMTD method — log-mean temperature difference, correction factor F, fouling, and required area for counter-current, co-current, and shell-and-tube.

heat exchanger
LMTD
shell and tube

Liquid volume in a partially filled horizontal cylinder, sphere, or cylinder with 2:1 elliptical heads, from diameter, length, and liquid height.

tank volume
horizontal tank
dip level

Net Positive Suction Head available from an energy balance at the pump suction, with the margin against the pump's NPSHR.

NPSH
NPSHA
cavitation

Preliminary design chain for a double-girder overhead crane — dead weight, wheel load, impact, girder moment and deflection, rope size, motor power, and wheel diameter.

overhead crane
EOT crane
girder deflection

Minimum shell and head thickness for an internal-pressure vessel per ASME Section VIII Division 1, with corrosion allowance and the next standard plate.

pressure vessel
ASME VIII-1
shell thickness

Hydraulic, shaft, and drive power for a centrifugal pump with the API 610 rated-power margin, plus seal PV, specific speed, and suction specific speed.

pump
shaft power
API 610

Convert 327 engineering units across 44 categories — pressure, flow, viscosity, torque, thermal conductivity, section modulus — in SI, metric and US/Imperial.

unit converter
pressure
flow

Liquid volume in a vertical cylindrical tank with a flat, conical, or 2:1 ellipsoidal bottom, from diameter, shell height, and liquid level.

tank volume
vertical tank
conical bottom