ADVANCED FLUID POWER ENGINEERING: Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Applications, Modeling, Control, and System Design - Couverture souple

Downey, Hausmann J.

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798165051043

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Why does a power unit run hot, a servo loop hunt, or a cylinder creep, when every component on the schematic looks correct?

Fluid power is often taught as a brief elective, either too descriptive to support calculation or too abstract to connect with the hardware on the shop floor.

Engineers who later have to specify a pump, tune a control loop, or trace an overheating circuit find that familiar formulas stop working the moment assumptions change: flow that is no longer turbulent, gas that follows neither an isothermal nor an adiabatic path, or trapped oil whose compliance, not the load mass, sets the speed of response.

Advanced Fluid Power Engineering closes that gap with one coherent treatment of hydraulic and pneumatic systems. It moves from physical principles to component behavior, from components to circuits, and from circuits to dynamic models and closed-loop control, and it carries every stage through to the numbers an engineer actually works with.

Inside, you will:

• See each design relationship derived from stated assumptions, so you can recognize when it applies and when it does not
• Follow complete worked examples that carry units through every line and judge each result against engineering experience
• Compare meter-in, meter-out, and bleed-off speed control, load-holding, regenerative, and accumulator circuits in energy terms
• Understand how valve, pump, and line dynamics shape stability, then use that understanding to model and tune position, velocity, and pressure loops
• Connect heat balance, contamination, reliability, and safety to design decisions made long before commissioning

The book covers fluids and applied fluid mechanics, pumps, cylinders and motors, directional, pressure, and flow control valves, accumulators and conductors, circuit design, hydrostatic transmissions, compressed air systems, pneumatic circuits, dynamic modeling, electrohydraulic proportional and servo valves, and closed-loop control.

It is written for upper-level undergraduate and graduate engineering students, and for practicing engineers in machine design, mobile equipment, manufacturing automation, and testing who are comfortable with calculus, introductory fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and elementary dynamics.

If you want to understand why a fluid power system behaves as it does, and not only what to select, open this book and begin building the analytical foundation that sound design and troubleshooting depend on.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798165051043
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 458
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg