The book is a learning package for students and professionals who are looking to advance their fluid
power careers. The package includes colored textbook, electronic files for the animated hydraulic
circuits, and a colored workbook (separate price) that contains printed power point slides, chapter
reviews and assignments. The book is the second in a series that the author plans to publish to offer
complete and comprehensive teaching and design tools for the fluid power industry. This book is an
attempt to fill the gap between the very academic style of fluid power books and the very
commercial style of books that are produced by fluid power manufacturers basically to promote their
products.
The book presents constructional and operational qualitative analogies between electrical, hydraulic
and electro-hydraulic systems. The book considers presenting real-life examples for various types of
electro-hydraulic valves. The book also covers the technicalities of in-field tuning of open-loop and
closed-loop electro-hydraulic systems. The book also presents guideline to select a valve for an
application and how to read data sheet of a valve. The book covers the basic functions contained in
the electronic control units that drive EH valves such as gain adjustor, maximum current limiter,
ramp generator, pulse width modulation, dead band eliminator, null adjustment, and current much
more.
The textbook is produced in letter size (8.5 x 11) inches, and weighs 3.5 lb. The textbook contains a
total of ten chapters distributed on 498 pages. The workbook is produced in the same size and
weighs 2 lb. The associated software is online downloadable.
