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Abstract Hydraulic systems are characterized by their ability to import large forces at high speeds and are used in many industrial motion systems, also, in applications where good dynamic performance is important. Hydraulic systems are also common in aircraft, where their high power-to-weight ratio and precise control makes them an ideal choice for actuation of flight surfaces. Electro hydraulic flow control valves, either proportional or servo (EHSV), are used in industry in a wide number of applications like machine tools, testing equipment, mining machinery, fatigue testing, flight simulation, paper machines, ships and electromagnetic marine engineering, injection molding machines, robotics, steel and aluminum mill equipment and autonomous manufacturing systems. These systems have favorable size to power ratio, precise and accurate control, and ability to apply very large forces. Servo hydraulic systems offer several other benefits over their electrical counter parts. For example, hydraulic systems are mechanically “stiffer”, resulting in higher machine frame resonant frequencies for a given power level, higher loop gain and improved dynamic performance. These investigations focus on the static and dynamic performance of a linear hydraulic system (displacement control system) under different operating conditions in case of connecting a flow control servo valve. High technology is used for measuring and recording the experimental results, which achieves accurate evaluations. Experiments have been conducted under no-load. Then, system has been loaded by 5560 N and the experiments are repeated. Supply pressure has been changed from 10 up to 50 bar. Experiments have been conducted without connecting springs to the system, then repeated in case of connecting springs with stiffness 32 N/mm. Effect of temperature variation of hydraulic oil on system performance has been investigated beginning from 28 oC up to 40 oC and 50 oC. 2 It is concluded that increasing temperature of hydraulic oil requires higher power in order to achieve the same supply pressure at low temperature. Accordingly, an increase in the flow rate occurs. The values of pressure decay at low temperature are less than the values at high temperature, also the pressure decay for the case of connecting flow control servo valve is less than in case of connecting PDFCV at the same conditions. The dynamic performance of the system is affected by different operating conditions. The frequency increases by increasing the temperature and by decreasing the load, while connecting springs to the system decreases frequency. In addition, bandwidth frequency increases by increasing temperature and decreases by increasing the load and connecting springs to the system. |