Week Lectures
1. Fluid mechanism, fluid drive, fluid circuit.
2. Hydraulic and pneumatic circuits: composition, graphical symbols of elements, functional circuit diagrams. Basic hydraulic and pneumatic circuits.
3. Working fluids of hydraulic circuits: properties, types, applications. Compressed air and its properties.
4. Pressure energy sources - hydraulic pumps: design, function, parameters, characteristics, control.
5. Rotary hydraulic motors and actuators: construction, functions, parameters.
6. Hydraulic cylinders: design, function, parameters.
7. Flow direction control elements: directional valves, check valves, pilot operated check valves.
8. Flow size control elements: throttle valves, flow control valves, orifices, and throttles.
9. Pressure control valves: pressure relief and reducing valves.
10. Proportional control technology, applications of proportional control technology.
11. Fundamentals of servo engineering and its applications.
12. Accessories for hydraulic and pneumatic circuits: accumulators, filters, pipes, hoses, tanks, coolers, etc.
13. Introduction to pneumatic mechanisms.
Questions to exam
1. Basics of hydromechanics - Pascal´s law, Law for pressure propagation, Equation of continuity, laminar and turbulent flow, major(local) and minor pressure drops, Bernoulli´s equation.
2. Fluid mechanisms - advantages, disadvantages, applications.
3. Fluid mechanisms - energy transfer (principle), basic principle of hydraulic systems (figure and description).
4. Fluids in systems - their purpose in systems, types, applications.
5. Hydrostatic converters - types, purpose, ideal converters (equations).
6. Hydrostatic converters - real converters (equations), efficiencies.
7. Basic characteristics of real rotary converters.
8. Rotary hydraulic pumps - types, basic principles, advantages, and disadvantages.
9. Rotary hydraulic motors - types, basic principles, advantages, and disadvantages.
10. Rotary actuators - types, basic principles, advantages, and disadvantages.
11. Hydraulic cylinders - types, basic principles, advantages, and disadvantages.
12. Check valves, shut-off valves, cartridge valves - types, basic principles, applications, graphical symbols.
13.Directional valves - types, basic principles, applications, graphical symbols.
14. Throttle valves - types, flow equation, basic principles, applications, graphical symbols, characteristics.
15. 2-way and 3-way flow control valves - their purpose, basic principles, applications.
16. Pressure control valves - types, basic principles, applications, graphical symbols.
17. Accumulators - types, basic principles, advantages, and disadvantages.
18. Accumulators - their functions in systems, examples of their applications in hydraulic systems (figures).
19. Filters and filtration technology - filter types, purpose, location in systems.
20. Tanks - purposes, types, heat flow, stabilization circuit (temperature, filtration).
21. Heat exchangers - types, power equations.
22. Pressure intensifiers - their purpose in systems, types, applications, pressure gain.
23. Electrohydraulic components in hydraulic systems - purpose, function, types, characteristics.
24. Basics of pneumatic mechanisms.
1. Fluid mechanism, fluid drive, fluid circuit.
2. Hydraulic and pneumatic circuits: composition, graphical symbols of elements, functional circuit diagrams. Basic hydraulic and pneumatic circuits.
3. Working fluids of hydraulic circuits: properties, types, applications. Compressed air and its properties.
4. Pressure energy sources - hydraulic pumps: design, function, parameters, characteristics, control.
5. Rotary hydraulic motors and actuators: construction, functions, parameters.
6. Hydraulic cylinders: design, function, parameters.
7. Flow direction control elements: directional valves, check valves, pilot operated check valves.
8. Flow size control elements: throttle valves, flow control valves, orifices, and throttles.
9. Pressure control valves: pressure relief and reducing valves.
10. Proportional control technology, applications of proportional control technology.
11. Fundamentals of servo engineering and its applications.
12. Accessories for hydraulic and pneumatic circuits: accumulators, filters, pipes, hoses, tanks, coolers, etc.
13. Introduction to pneumatic mechanisms.
Questions to exam
1. Basics of hydromechanics - Pascal´s law, Law for pressure propagation, Equation of continuity, laminar and turbulent flow, major(local) and minor pressure drops, Bernoulli´s equation.
2. Fluid mechanisms - advantages, disadvantages, applications.
3. Fluid mechanisms - energy transfer (principle), basic principle of hydraulic systems (figure and description).
4. Fluids in systems - their purpose in systems, types, applications.
5. Hydrostatic converters - types, purpose, ideal converters (equations).
6. Hydrostatic converters - real converters (equations), efficiencies.
7. Basic characteristics of real rotary converters.
8. Rotary hydraulic pumps - types, basic principles, advantages, and disadvantages.
9. Rotary hydraulic motors - types, basic principles, advantages, and disadvantages.
10. Rotary actuators - types, basic principles, advantages, and disadvantages.
11. Hydraulic cylinders - types, basic principles, advantages, and disadvantages.
12. Check valves, shut-off valves, cartridge valves - types, basic principles, applications, graphical symbols.
13.Directional valves - types, basic principles, applications, graphical symbols.
14. Throttle valves - types, flow equation, basic principles, applications, graphical symbols, characteristics.
15. 2-way and 3-way flow control valves - their purpose, basic principles, applications.
16. Pressure control valves - types, basic principles, applications, graphical symbols.
17. Accumulators - types, basic principles, advantages, and disadvantages.
18. Accumulators - their functions in systems, examples of their applications in hydraulic systems (figures).
19. Filters and filtration technology - filter types, purpose, location in systems.
20. Tanks - purposes, types, heat flow, stabilization circuit (temperature, filtration).
21. Heat exchangers - types, power equations.
22. Pressure intensifiers - their purpose in systems, types, applications, pressure gain.
23. Electrohydraulic components in hydraulic systems - purpose, function, types, characteristics.
24. Basics of pneumatic mechanisms.