Hydraulic Cylinder Calculations The Easy Way

Hydraulic cylinder calculations need to be done quite often, as a matter of course, when designing molds. These calculations are done effortlessly, and in a matter of seconds, with DZynSource for Molds Software. The following steps show the beauty and simplicity of our software for doing this and other common mold engineering tasks:

1. This is the main screenshot from DZynSource for Molds, in this case click on the "Fluids" command button.

The Fluids sub-menu appears, and you choose the "Hydraulic Cylinder Calculations" command button.

The blank Hydraulic Cylinder worksheet appears, ready for you to enter your known data. The second article that I wrote on this blog used the following example:

You have a hydraulic cylinder with a 2.000 diameter piston, a 1.000 diameter rod, a 12-inch stroke, and want to extend the rod in .5 seconds, and the system pressure is 1000 pounds per square inch.  Calculate the forward and return forces generated and the flow rate, in gallons per minute, of hydraulic oil required to accomplish the stroke outwatd in .5 seconds.

We'll enter this data into the Hydraulics worksheet:

First, choose the units that you want to work in, enter the data, Press Enter, and Voila, all of your answers appear.

Customers will very often call to find out how many gallons per minute their hydraulic pump will need to delivery to the mold, particularly with unscrewing molds. You can answer them in the blink of an eye, and not have to take the time to figure it out and call them back. What if scenarios are worked out fast as you can think of them.  DZynSource for Molds really does save time, and enables you to create better designs. 

As always, over designing is expensive, under-designing can be disastrous!