Learning about Hydraulic and Penumatic systems 2

[SanHillCrane]

I am trying to teach myself about Hydraulic and Pneumatic systems. I'm interested in learning about them generally, and then teaching myself about their specific uses (I.E brake system in passenger cars). So far I feel pretty accomplished. One of my pillar learning sites is howstuffworks.com. It has a great deal of information about hydraulic systems for the noobie, but very little on pneumatic systems.

I have visited my local library plenty of times but there aren't any books on either systems. I checked my local college hoping to find courses on this information, but there are none!

At the moment, I feel like I have gotten good ground on hydraulic system information, but eventually I'll reach the end of the howstuffworks page and not know where to go next.

Can anyone help me? Thank you.

 

[axlechaos]

Try 'hydraulicsupermarket.com' for the hydraulics, and Norgren for pneumatics. You can also do a web search as there are plenty of on-line courses - a lot of them free. Good luck!

 

[hydromech]

It is good that you now know, "how stuff works", it will be of great benefit in terms of hydraulic and pneumatic applications, if you can investigate, "how stuff stops working", then you will be of more use to people that have hydro-pneumatic issues...

Paraphrasing, you need to know the theory and the practicalities of such systems, there are often many differences between the theory and the practical aspects. The only real way to learn about systems is to work on them, in design, application, service and troubleshooting...

Reading a book or looking at a website will, as I say, give you the theory. The application of entropy to a hydraulic or pneumatic system is a real game changer. Experience is necessary in order to know what's really going on.

Hydromech

 

[hydtools]

Explore the hydraulics & pneumatics magazine website:

http://hydraulicspneumatics.com/

Ted