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Handbook of Fluid Power Systems: Hydraulics and Pneumatics for Practicing Engineers: Component Selection, Circuit Design, Sizing, and Troubleshooting

Handbook of Fluid Power Systems: Hydraulics and Pneumatics for Practicing Engineers: Component Selection, Circuit Design, Sizing, and Troubleshooting

Sterling, Nathaniel K.

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Technology & EngineeringGeneral Education

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ISBN13: 9798170450879
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 484
Weight: 2.45
Height: 0.97 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
A hydraulic press slows in mid-cycle. The pump is replaced, then the relief valve, then the seals - and the press still crawls, because the component that was changed was never the one that failed.

The introductory course does not prepare an engineer for this. A single semester derives Pascal's principle, sizes a cylinder, draws a relief valve, and moves on. The engineer then made responsible for real equipment finds the drawing carries twenty symbols that were never taught, and a valve data sheet quoting flow at a pressure drop that does not match the application. Knowing what a relief valve does is a different thing from being able to size one.

This handbook was written for that gap. It assumes a reader competent in engineering fundamentals who is now accountable for equipment that has to work, and treats fluid power as a connected body of method running from the physics of the fluid to the behaviour of a real machine. Hydraulics and pneumatics are covered together, because the practitioner meets them together and compressibility is clearest by direct comparison.

What this handbook gives you

  • Derivations that show their origins, so every working figure carries the conditions that limit it and you can see when the customary answer stops being right
  • Sizing methods you can apply directly - conductors on velocity and loss, pumps and prime movers from a duty cycle, actuators, directional valves, filtration, accumulators, and cooling from thermal load rather than habit
  • Unit discipline carried through every step, in SI with United States customary values alongside, addressing the conversion and gauge-versus-absolute errors that reach commissioning more often than conceptual ones
  • Component behaviour described both as designed and as degraded, so a worn pump can be distinguished from a starved one
  • A diagnostic method reasoning backwards from symptom to cause, with troubleshooting matrices naming the measurement that confirms or eliminates each candidate
  • Electrohydraulic motion control as a full subject, with the dynamic analysis closed-loop systems require
  • Energy accounting that locates where input power actually goes, and the architectures that avoid turning it into heat
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