🧪 Engineering Mechanical Engineering Simulation
Interactive slider-crank engine mechanism: spin a crank at real engine RPM, adjust the connecting-rod ratio, crank radius and slide offset, and watch exact piston position, velocity and acceleration derived live from the mechanism's kinematics.
This simulation focuses on mechanical engineering principles like statics and dynamics: it renders a real slider-crank mechanism — a rotating crank, an articulated connecting rod, and a piston sliding inside a cylinder guide — and drives it at an adjustable engine speed. Live readouts derive the piston's exact position, velocity and acceleration straight from the mechanism's closed-form kinematic equation, letting you see how rod ratio, crank radius, slide offset and RPM change the motion and the inertial loads a real connecting rod must survive.
This simulation focuses on mechanical engineering principles like statics and dynamics. Users will design and analyze mechanisms to solve various engineering problems.
2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install