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Pneumatic Drives

System Design, Modelling and Control

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Authors:
  1. Peter Beater

    1. Fachhochschule Südwestfalen, Fachbereich Maschinenbau-Automatisierungstechnik, Soest, Germany

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  • Profound modelling of pneumatic machines
  • Must have for all having high requirements for their pneumatic machines
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-3

  3. Properties of Compressed Air

    Pages 5-10

  4. Thermodynamic Processes

    Pages 11-23

  5. Some Results from Fluid Mechanics

    Pages 25-39

  6. Engineering Flow Rate Calculations

    Pages 41-54

  7. Modelling of Long Lines

    Pages 55-79

  8. Electro-Mechanical Converters

    Pages 81-97

  9. Cylinders

    Pages 99-126

  10. Non-Standard Linear Actuators

    Pages 127-143

  11. Semi-Rotary Actuators

    Pages 145-149

  12. Air Motors and Air Turbines

    Pages 151-170

  13. Directional Control Valves

    Pages 171-183

  14. Shut-Off Valves

    Pages 185-192

  15. Pressure Control Valves

    Pages 193-214

  16. Flow Control Valves

    Pages 215-219

  17. Proportional Directional Control Valves

    Pages 221-233

  18. Stroke-Time Control

    Pages 235-246

  19. Position Control of Pneumatic Systems

    Pages 247-268

  20. Control of Actuators for Process Valves

    Pages 269-279
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About this book

The idea to use air for transmitting power is very old. Ctesibius in - cient Greece described a catapult using pneumatic cylinders to first store energy and then rapidly accelerate an arrow. Heron of Alexandria dev- oped automatic temple doors which opened and closed by means of hot air. And from the Greek word for breath he coined the term that was used as title for his book and today describes a whole industry: - pneumatics. Pneumatic components and systems have become an important topic for textbooks. Most have their focus on the description of the steady-state - haviour, practical problems like troubleshooting or Boolean algebra to help designing control algorithms. Only a few textbooks covering the theore- cal analysis and design of pneumatic systems have been published (Z- manzon et al. 1965; Andersen 1967; Andersson et al. 1975). But they were written at a time when digital computers were not easily available to en- neers and therefore contain few material about modelling and simulation. This book tries to bridge the gap between scientific disciplines (fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, mathematics, control, etc.), the conventional approach to describe pneumatic components and systems by their stea- state behaviour, the wish of a design engineer to test his design before - tually building hardware and the resulting need for mathematical models in order to use today’s powerful digital computers.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Fachhochschule Südwestfalen, Fachbereich Maschinenbau-Automatisierungstechnik, Soest, Germany

    Peter Beater

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Pneumatic Drives

  • Book Subtitle: System Design, Modelling and Control

  • Authors: Peter Beater

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69471-7

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-69470-0Published: 05 February 2007

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-08900-8Published: 15 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-69471-7Published: 23 February 2007

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 324

  • Number of Illustrations: 244 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Engineering Fluid Dynamics, Machinery and Machine Elements, Control, Robotics, Mechatronics, Engineering Design

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