{"id":2912,"date":"2017-07-05T01:01:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T08:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Simcenter-Blog\/Refresh-your-mind-with-some-basic-knowledge-about-hydraulic\/ba-p\/418997"},"modified":"2026-03-26T05:56:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:56:35","slug":"refresh-your-mind-with-some-basic-knowledge-about-hydraulic-fluids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/refresh-your-mind-with-some-basic-knowledge-about-hydraulic-fluids\/","title":{"rendered":"Refresh your mind with some basic knowledge about hydraulic fluids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><STRONG>You would like to better understand how an excavator lifts a heavy load, how a bottle filling machine accurately fills several thousand containers, or how a crane digs a large quantity of ore?<\/STRONG>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><STRONG><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center\" style=\"width: 400px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/filling_bottles_machine-1.jpg\" alt=\"filling_bottles_machine.jpg\" title=\"filling_bottles_machine.jpg\" \/><span class=\"lia-inline-image-caption\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault();\">Filling bottle machine<\/span><\/span><\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>First, refresh your mind with some basic knowledge about the properties, parameters, and phenomena of hydraulic fluids.<\/STRONG><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><STRONG>Pascal stated in 1651<\/STRONG> that <EM>&#8220;a change of pressure at any point in a fluid closed at rest is transmitted without diminution to all points of the fluid&#8221;<\/EM> &#8230; which means that it is then possible to <STRONG>transmit forces using the static pressure of a fluid.<\/STRONG><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>This leads us to our second point: transposing this knowledge of physics into engineering application, allows us today to build machines to multiply the forces!<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>In order to build a powerful machine capable of lifting, pushing, digging &#8230; in all operating conditions, engineers must design energy-efficient hydraulic systems, composed of accurately-sized hydraulic components such as pumps, valves, lines, actuators, and auxiliaries.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center\" style=\"width: 400px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/digging_machine-1.jpg\" alt=\"digging_machine.jpg\" title=\"digging_machine.jpg\" \/><span class=\"lia-inline-image-caption\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault();\">Crane lifting important quantity of ore<\/span><\/span><\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/global\/en\/topic\/introduction-fundamentals-hydraulics\/10746\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Watch this 20-minute course <\/A>on the hydraulics basics to better understand how to develop more and more sophisticated fluid supply systems for multiple industrial applications.<\/STRONG><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You would like to better understand how an excavator lifts a heavy load, how a bottle filling machine accurately fills several thousand containers, or how a crane digs a large quantity of ore?&nbsp;&amp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43169,"featured_media":2918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,184],"tags":[16],"industry":[],"product":[590],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-webinar","tag-system-simulation","product-simcenter-amesim"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/filling_bottles_machine-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2912"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2920,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912\/revisions\/2920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2912"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=2912"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=2912"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}