Fluid Power with Applications

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Fluid Power with Applications, Seventh Edition presents broad coverage of fluid power technology in a readable and understandable fashion. An extensive array of industrial applications is provided to motivate and stimulate students’ interest in the field. Balancing theory and applications, this book is updated to reflect current technology; it focuses on the design, analysis, operation, and maintenance of fluid power systems. It also includes an Automation StudioTM 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.

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO FLUID POWER

CHAPTER 2 PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF HYDRAULIC FLUIDS

CHAPTER 3 ENERGY AND POWER IN HYDRAULIC SYSTEMS

CHAPTER 4 FRICTIONAL LOSSES IN HYDRAULIC PIPELINES

CHAPTER 5 HYDRAULIC PUMPS

CHAPTER 6 HYDRAULIC CYLINDERS AND CUSHIOING DEVICES

CHAPTER 7 HYDRAULIC MOTORS

CHAPTER 8 HYDRAULIC VALVES

CHAPTER 9 HYDRAULIC CIRCUIT DESIGN AND ANALYSIS

CHAPTER 10 HYDRAULIC CONDUCTORS AND FITTINGS

CHAPTER 11 ANCILLARY HYDRAULIC DEVICES

CHAPTER 12 MAINTENANCE OF HYDRAULIC SYSTEMS

CHAPTER 13 PNEUMATICS: AIR PREPARATION AND COMPONENTS

CHAPTER 14 PNEUMATICS: CIRCUITS AND APPLICATIONS

CHAPTER 15 BASIC ELECTRICAL CONTROLS FOR FLUID POWER CIRCUITS

CHAPTER 16 FLUID LOGIC CONTROL SYSTEMS

CHAPTER 17 ADVANCED ELECTRICAL CONTROLS FOR FLUID POWER SYSTEMS

CHAPTER 18 AUTOMATION STUDIO^TM COMPUTER SOFTWARE

For sophomore- or junior-level courses in Fluid Power, Hydraulics, and Pneumatics in two- or four-year Engineering Technology and Industrial Technology programs.

Fluid Power with Applications, Seventh Edition presents broad coverage of fluid power technology in a readable and understandable fashion. An extensive array of industrial applications is provided to motivate and stimulate students’ interest in the field. Balancing theory and applications, this text is updated to reflect current technology; it focuses on the design, analysis, operation, and maintenance of fluid power systems.

For sophomore- or junior-level courses in Fluid Power, Hydraulics, and Pneumatics in two- or four-year Engineering Technology and Industrial Technology programs.

Fluid Power with Applications, Seventh Edition presents broad coverage of fluid power technology in a readable and understandable fashion. An extensive array of industrial applications is provided to motivate and stimulate students’ interest in the field. Balancing theory and applications, this text is updated to reflect current technology; it focuses on the design, analysis, operation, and maintenance of fluid power systems.

Hallmark Features

• Clear presentation. Presents broad coverage of material in a readable and understandable fashion. Enables instructors to rely on the text to provide much of the basic learning. Enables students to more effectively use their instructor’s class time.
• Extensive use of industry-provided cutaway drawings and illustrations. Gives students a better understanding of the operation of fluid power components and systems in a real-world context.
• Ideal balance of theory and applications. Provides students with an excellent foundation for understanding the changes that take place in methodology in the field.
• Boolean Algebra with electric ladder diagrams. Combines both in presenting the material on electrical controls. Allows students to better understand how electrical currents control the operation of fluid power systems.

Anthony Esposito was born on October 4, 1934 in Schenectady, NY. His family moved to Saratoga Springs, NY in 1948. He graduated from Saratoga Springs High School in 1953. In 1957 he received a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Union College in Schenectady. He was employed at General Electric Company as a design engineer in Cincinnati from 1957 to 1961 and a control systems engineer in Schenectady from 1961 to 1965. He married Mary Jane Stark of Cincinnati in 1959 and they have four children and ten grandchildren. Anthony and Mary currently live in Fairfield, OH.

Upon receiving a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Union College in 1965, Anthony left General Electric to begin a teaching career at Miami University within the Manufacturing Engineering Department. In 1969 he received his Professional Engineer’s License from the State of Ohio. He served as Chairman of the Manufacturing Engineering Department from 1976 to 1992. During his career at Miami University, he authored four engineering technology college textbooks, including “FLUID POWER WITH APPLICATIONS’ published by Prentice Hall. His current title at Miami University is Professor Emeritus.

This edition is updated to include

• A CD that uses Automation Studio ™ software to simulate 16 of the fluid power circuits presented throughout the book. The software provides students with dynamic and visual presentation of the creation, simulation, analysis, and animation of the fluid power circuits studied in class or assigned as homework exercises.
• A new chapter entitled Automation Studio(tm) Computer Software covers the salient features and capabilities of Automation Studio(tm), which empowers users to design and create virtual circuits, simulate circuit behavior, animate component operation, and perform mathematical analyses that optimize system performance.
• A new section in Chapter 12 covering water hydraulics, which are increasing in popularity and use — particularly among the food- and paper-processing industries — because they are environmental-friendly.

• Several updated illustrations and photographs showing current fluid power technology.

• Updated example problems and end-of-chapter exercises which better reflect current industrial applications. The example problems and exercises encompass a wide range of subject matter and levels of difficulty, allowing students to progress in an orderly manner.

• New material covering fluid power systems that enhance the use of renewable energy, reflecting the increasing emphasis on lowering air pollution levels and reducing greenhouse gases.

• New material on hydroforming, a manufacturing application of hydraulics that uses hydraulic liquid to form three-dimensional sheet-metal panels (sheet hydroforming) or stiff and strong structural parts (tube hydroforming).

• New material covering waterjet cutting, a manufacturing application of hydraulics that pressurizes water up to about 60,000 psi and pushes it through an orifice to produce a precise jet of water traveling at approximately three times the speed of sound.

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 StudioTM, a computer software package that allows the user to design, simulate, animate, and mathematically analyze fluid power circuits (Chapter 18)
• An Automation StudioTM 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

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