Hydraulic Power System Analysis

Despite the decline of its glamour quotient in recent years, fluid power systems remain attractive in many applications as compared to electrical or mechanical power transmission methods. Nevertheless, designers first approaching fluid power have found few resources to help in design and analysis. Akers and his co-authors, all from Iowa State U., answer the call by presenting modern computer-aided analytical techniques used to power nonlinear, dynamic fluid power systems. They describe the properties of fluids and their units, steady state modeling, dynamic modeling, linear systems analysis, frequency response and feedback, valves and their uses, pumps and motors, axial piston pumps and motors, hydrostatic transmissions, pressure regulating valves, valve model expansion, flow division and noise control. The CD contains programs using Excel, Mathcad and MATLAB that support the exercises and examples in the text. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)