Hydraulics and Pneumatics: A technician's and engineer's guide - Softcover

Parr, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1483108724 ISBN 13: 9781483108728

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2013

Synopsis

Gives insight into the components and operation of a pneumatic or hydraulic system. The mathematical content has been deliberately kept simple with the aim of making the book readable rather than rigorous.

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Review

Excellent introduction to Hydraulics, December 3, 2000 Reviewer: therealrobg from Southampton, England Already having a degree in mechanical engineering, but no practical knowledge of hydraulics, I purchased this book to enable me to start designing using standard hydraulic components. Whilst a previous book I had acquired disappointingly focussed on pneumatics at the expense of hydraulics, this book was the other way around. Its coverage of hydraulics is excellent and should enable anyone with a technical background to begin designing hydraulic systems with confidence. My rating would have been higher had the coverage of pneumatics, jointly prominent in the book's title, been equally extensive.

About the Author

Andrew Parr is an Industrial Control Engineer, recently retired from ASW Sheerness Steel, Sheerness, UK who worked in the steel industry for over thirty years. In 1980 he began specializing in sequence and closed loop control systems using Programmable Controllers (PLCs) with hydraulic and pneumatic actuators. He has written fifteen books on electronics and process control including Logic Designers Handbook, Industrial Control Handbook, Programmable Controllers, Control Engineering, along with many amateur- level books, among them Introduction to Operational Amplifiers. His books have been widely translated into many languages, including Japanese, Polish, and Swedish. He and has presented papers at various international conferences, including ones on 'Automation Systems in the Steel Industry' and on 'Automated Fault Diagnostics'

Edition details

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1483108724
• ISBN 13: 9781483108728
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 234