Fundamentals Of Fluid Power Control

This exciting new reference text is concerned with fluid power control. It is an ideal reference for the practicing engineer and a textbook for advanced courses in fluid power control. In applications in which large forces and/or torques are required, often with a fast response time, oil-hydraulic control systems are essential. They excel in environmentally difficult applications because the drive part can be designed with no electrical components and they almost always have a more competitive power/weight ratio compared to electrically actuated systems. Fluid power systems have the capability to control several parameters, such as pressure, speed, position, and so on, to a high degree of accuracy at high power levels. In practice there are many exciting challenges facing the fluid power engineer, who now must preferably have a broad skill set.

• • Author: John Watton
• • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• • Publication Date: Mar 27, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 510 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1107670187
• • ISBN-13: 9781107670181