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Week Five Homework Problems: Fundamentals of ! Fluid Power

This document contains 7 homework problems about fluid power fundamentals: 1) Explain benefits and drawbacks of using water as a hydraulic fluid. 2) Calculate inertial pressure generated in a garden hose if flow rate decreases and if this could cause failure. 3) Calculate pressure drop needed to accelerate water flow in a pipe. 4) Calculate bulk modulus of an unknown fluid using compression of a fluid column. 5) Calculate compressed volume and bulk modulus of a fluid mixture under pressure. 6) Describe how air entrainment influences the natural frequency of a hydraulic cylinder. 7) Calculate minimum natural frequency of a hydraulic cylinder using different fluids.

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Week Five Homework Problems: Fundamentals of ! Fluid Power

This document contains 7 homework problems about fluid power fundamentals: 1) Explain benefits and drawbacks of using water as a hydraulic fluid. 2) Calculate inertial pressure generated in a garden hose if flow rate decreases and if this could cause failure. 3) Calculate pressure drop needed to accelerate water flow in a pipe. 4) Calculate bulk modulus of an unknown fluid using compression of a fluid column. 5) Calculate compressed volume and bulk modulus of a fluid mixture under pressure. 6) Describe how air entrainment influences the natural frequency of a hydraulic cylinder. 7) Calculate minimum natural frequency of a hydraulic cylinder using different fluids.

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Fundamentals of !

Fluid Power

Week Five Homework Problems

1. Explain the benefits and drawbacks of using water as a hydraulic fluid.


2. Consider a garden hose that is 30 m long and 2 cm in diameter. The hose
initially passes water (ρ = 1000 kg/m3 ) at a rate of 15 liters per minute. If the
flow rate decreases linearly by 150 lit/s2 , what is the inertial pressure generated
in the hose? Would this theoretical inertial pressure likely cause failure of the
hose? Why are such high pressures not seen in actual hoses?
3. A 4 cm diameter pipe passes water at a rate of 1 m3 /s. If we neglect viscous
shear, what pressure drop per unit length must be imposed across this pipe to
accelerate the volumetric flow rate by 1 m3 /s2 ?
4. A cylinder with a diameter of 7 cm and a height of 20 cm is filled with an
unknown fluid. A force of 16 kN is applied to a piston sitting on top of the
fluid, which compresses the fluid column height to 19.99 cm. What is the bulk
modulus of the unknown fluid?
5. A mixture is composed of 3% air and 97% hydraulic fluid by volume. It fills
a 20 cm3 container, and is initially at atmospheric pressure. The top of the
container is compressed until the fluid pressure becomes 1 MPa absolute. The
air adheres to the ideal gas law, and the compression is isothermal at 25◦ C. The
bulk modulus of the oil is known to be βoil = 1.9 GPa.
(a) What is the compressed volume of the mixture?
(b) What percent of the volume reduction is due to the air?
(c) What is the effective bulk modulus of the mixture?
6. How does air entrainment influence the natural frequency of a hydraulic cylin-
der?
7. Calculate the minimum natural frequency of a hydraulic cylinder (L = 25 cm
and D = 4 cm) connected to a 45 kg load when the hydraulic fluid is (a) an oil
with β = 1.7 GPa and (b) water with β = 2.2 GPa.

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