This book is targeting industry professionals who are in charge of operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting hydraulic systems. This book is also a great resource for mechanical engineers and service manuals technical writers. The book presents more than 40 troubleshooting charts to cover system-level and components-level troubleshooting including hydraulic fluids, pumps, motors, valves, cylinders, accumulators, reservoirs, transmission lines, heat exchanges, filters, and sealing elements. The book also contains proposed inspection sheets for the aforementioned components and investigations for the typical types of failures for each component. This book is colored and has the size of standard A4. The book is associated with a separate colored workbook. The workbook contains printed power point slides, chapter reviews and assignments. This book is the sixth in a series that the author plans to publish to offer complete and comprehensive teaching references for the fluid power industry. The book contains a total of fourteen chapters distributed over 250 pages with very demonstrative figures and tables. The contents of the book are brand non-biased and intends to introduce the latest technologies related to the subject of the book.
Medhat Khalil, Ph.D. is Director of Professional Education & Research Development at the Applied Technology Center, Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee, WI, USA. Medhat has consistently been working on his academic development through the years, starting from bachelor's and master's Degrees in Mechanical Engineering in Cairo Egypt and proceeding with his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Post-Doctoral Industrial Research Fellowship at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He has been certified and is a member of many institutions such as: Certified Fluid Power Hydraulic Specialist (CFPHS) by the International Fluid Power Society (IFPS); Certified Fluid Power Accredited Instructor (CFPAI) by the International Fluid Power Society (IFPS); Member of Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power Engineering Research Center (CCEFP); Listed Fluid Power Consultant by the National Fluid Power Association (NFPA); and Listed Professional Instructor by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Medhat has balanced academic and industrial experience. Medhat has vast working experience in Fluid Power teaching courses for industry professionals. Being quite aware of the technological developments in the field of fluid power, Medhat had worked for several world-wide recognized industrial organizations such as Rexroth in Egypt and CAE in Canada. Medhat had designed several hydraulic systems and developed several analytical and educational software. Medhat also has considerable experience in modeling and simulation of dynamic systems using Matlab-Simulink. Medhat has been selected among the inductees for Pioneers in fluid Power by NFPA (2012) and Hall of Fam in fluid Power by IFPS (2021).
