As important special engineering equipment, tamper is used to complete the work of construction and maintenance in the railway field. In the present market, tampers are mostly mechanically driven and exist technical limitations. A new electro-hydraulic exciter applied on new tamper is proposed. It is mainly composed of new spin valve and new micro-displacement oscillation cylinder. In the paper...

Throttling loss of a hydraulic system is a major contributor to the low system efficiency. Hydraulic transformers can potentially be used as an energy efficient, throttle-less control approach for multi-actuators systems powered by a common pressure rail (CPR). The transformer transforms the input CPR pressure to the desired pressure of the actuator instead of throttling it. Regenerative energy...

sures experienced by a pipeline can be either beneficial or detrimental from an operational performance perspective, depending on the amount, the two phase regime of the mixture (whether homogeneous or slug) and the nature and cause of the transient. It is generally held that when free (undissolved) air, or gas, is present in a hydraulic system, it can greatly reduce the surge pressure levels b...

An effective description of water transport in the soil–plant–atmosphere continuum (SPAC) is needed for wide-ranging applications in hydrology and climate-vegetation interactions. In this contribution, the theory of water movement within the SPAC is reviewed with emphasis on the eco-physiological and evolutionary constraints to water transport. The description of the SPAC can be framed at two w...

We study two-dimensional flow in a layered heterogeneous medium composed of two materials whose hydraulic properties and spatial distribution are known statistically but are otherwise uncertain. Our analysis relies on the composite media theory, which employs random domain decomposition in the context of groundwater flow moment equations to explicitly account for the separate effects of materia...

The pressure changes in the liquid-filled fluid circuits of Hydraulically Interconnected Suspensions (HIS) often lead to vibration of the whole pipeline and associated structures and hence become a source of structural noise, which degrades ride comfort. This paper presents the numerical and experimental investigation into the vibration of this kind of hydraulic circuit. The one-dimensional wav...