Fluid Power with Applications: International Edition - Softcover

Esposito, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130145025 ISBN 13: 9780130145024

Publisher: Pearson, 1999

Synopsis

For sophomore/junior-level courses in Fluid Power, Hydraulics, and Pneumatics in 2- and 4-year Engineering Technology and Industrial Technology Programs.

Updated to reflect current fluid power technology and industrial applications, this text focuses on the design, analysis, operation, and maintenance of fluid power systems.

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Synopsis

Updated to reflect current fluid power technology and industrial applications, this text focuses on the design, analysis, operation, and maintenance of fluid power systems. *NEW - Use of MathCad for optimization, shows students how to use MathCad for optimizing the operating performance of hydraulic systems. *NEW - Practical methods for controlling the speed of hydraulic cylinders and motors using flow control valves, provides students with realistic ways to obtain desired speeds of hydraulic cylinders and motors. *NEW - A clearer explanation of the performance of pumps and hydraulic motors, enhances student understanding of the operation of hydraulic pumps and motors. *NEW - Lists of key equations - Added to the end of each chapter, allows students to more easily access equations when needed in later chapters. *NEW - Updated examples problems and chapter-end exercises, introduces students to current industrial applications. *NEW - Earlier coverage of hydraulic systems, provides better subject continuity - hydraulics is now covered in its entirety before pneumatics is introduced.

*NEW - Later coverage of maintenance-related properties of hydraulic fluids, allows students to develop an in-depth understanding of the operation of hydraulic systems before delving into maintenance-related subjects. *Clear presentation of both theory and applications, helps students to easily pick up the basics from the text and to optimize class time for more in-depth discussion of specific topics and techniques. *Extensively illustrated -With industry-provided cutaway drawings and illustrations of fluid power components and systems, allows instructors to better explain, and students to more readily understand, the operation of fluid power components and systems. *MathCad - Explains how to use computer software for analyzing hydraulic systems, lets students do extensive calculations in a more reasonable amount of time, and to focus more on learning concepts. *Balanced presentation of theory - appropriate for both 2- and 4-year programs, helps 2-year technology graduates make a smooth transition into 4-year programs.

From the Back Cover

Fluid Power with Applications, seventh edition

Anthony Esposito

 

Now in its seventh edition, Fluid Power with Applications continues toprovide readers with an in-depth background in the field of fluid power.  Emphasizing such subjects as design, analysis, operation, maintenance, and practical applications, this text provides the “how” as well as the “why” of fluid power systems.

 

New features of the seventh edition include:

• Coverage of the salient features and capabilities of Automation Studio™, a computer software package that allows the user to design, simulate, animate, and mathematically analyze fluid power circuits (Chapter 18)
• An Automation Studio™ CD (produced by Famic Technologies Inc.) that contains simulations and animations of many of the fluid power circuits presented throughout the book as well as a variety of additional fluid power applications.
• Coverage of using water hydraulics in lieu of oil hydraulics in certain promising fluid power applications, reflecting the fact that water is a more environmentally-friendly hydraulic fluid than oil (Section 12.17)
• Material on fluid power systems that enhance the use of renewable energy, reflecting the increasing emphasis on lowering air-pollution levels and reducing greenhouse gases to minimize global warming
• Coverage of the use of hydroforming and waterjet cutting, two promising manufacturing applications of hydraulics (Sections 3.5 and 5.2)
• A number of updated photographs and illustrations that better reflect current fluid power technology
• Many updated example problems and end-of-chapter exercises that reflect current industrial applications

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130145025
• ISBN 13: 9780130145024
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 648