Hydraulics and Pneumatics: A Technician's and Engineer's Guide 2nd Edition, Kindle Edition

This book will provide the reader with a basic working knowledge of hydraulic and pneumatic systems. It is not structured like a text book in that it does not give problems to work on at the end of each chapter. It makes use of numerous illustrations to accompany the explanations and provides the reader with a working knowledge on the function each component in a hydraulic or pneumatic system satisfies.

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This book describes all basic concepts of hydraulic and pneumatic systems and it is a very good guide of what compenents you will need in order to build up your own system..

I hoped to find this a good resource for designing and installing hydraulics and pneumatics to machines I design. It is more of a tech level intro to both subjects, and a very good one. Just not as practical as I hoped for.

Working as a practicing engineer for a major US airline, I found this book a very useful introduction to hydraulics & pneumatics. Using this book, I was able to take systems on our airplanes (such as rudder control units and thrust reverser controllers) and write schematics of them using the hydraulic & pneumatic notation. I found the chapter on process control pneumatics to be quite useful in troubleshooting & understanding these systems. While I use this information on aircraft systems, the book is directed to hydraulic & pneumatics in ALL industries and no reference is made to hardware as installed in aircraft applications. Check valves, relief valves, accumulators, pilot valves and sequencing valves are well explained to the layman. The author does a great job explaining the dynamics of cylinders and valves with lots of timing diagrams and schematics. Pick this book up if you want to come up to speed quickly on hydraulics and pneumatics.

Needed this book for class. Metric. There are no Imperial measures in this book.

Once again this is a book that lacks the info everyone is looking for. It has just enough info to get you thinking about hydraulics and then leaves you hanging. I would say its written by someone who hasnt played around with hyrdraulics except maybe on paper. Lets see some real life examples and an indepth explanation, and some things that will happen if you dont follow safty guidlines. All in all I would have to put stuff together and experiment myself to find out it anything would work or not. I have not found anything online either that helped with hydraulics. surplussuperstore has a pretty good source for hydraulics but doesnt really explain anything either. There has to be a good book or someone out there that shows examples of hydraulics being used.

Pretty complete