Industrial Fluid Power

This book covers various details regarding industrial fluid power like Introduction to hydraulics & pneumatics, Hydraulic pumps/motors/valves/actuators, Pneumatics cylinders/valves/motors, Circuit design; Automation and Simulations in fluid power systems. The book is conceived as a standard reference book for students, experts, and policy makers. While covering the basics of scientific and engineering principles of system design, the book further deals with ample solved numericals for various industrial components. The book is designed to fulfill the much awaited need for a handy, scientific, and easy to understand comprehensive handbook for design professionals and students of mechanical, mechatronics and civil engineering courses. Besides the sheer breadth of the topics covered, what makes this well researched book different from earlier attempts is the fact that this is based completely on extensive practical experiences of the editor and the authors. Thus, a lot of emphasis has been placed on system sizing and integration. This book will be really useful for all undergraduate, postgraduate students, research scholar as well as faculties of various universities.