Hydraulic Cylinder, its Applications and its Special Types

A Hydraulic cylinder is a mechanical device used for moving or controlling a system. Hydraulic cylinder gives unidirectional force with the help of unidirectional stroke. Other name for hydraulic cylinder is linear hydraulic motor. Hydraulic fluid is used in hydraulic cylinder to produce pressurized linear motion and force. Hydraulic Cylinders are also referred as Hydraulic actuators, hydraulic Rams hydraulic jacks and linear hydraulic actuators. In hydraulic cylinder, hydraulic pump produce the energy and these cylinders convert this energy into a mechanical output to perform the task. Hydraulic cylinders perform as muscles for machinery.

Basically hydraulic cylinders are used in those industries where heavy machinery and engineering products are used as these machinery need heavy power. These cylinders are used in all kinds of heavy equipments and heavy vehicles such as the bulldozers, forklifts, excavators and elevators etc. In fact now day's hydraulic cylinders are very helpful in domestic applications also that perform task quickly with great convenience and safety. Hydraulic cylinders are of various special types that are explained below:

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A Mechanical Actuator- Hydraulic Cylinder

A Hydraulic Cylinder is a mechanical actuator (an actuator is a mechanical device for moving or controlling a mechanism or a system) that is used to give a unidirectional force through a unidirectional stroke. It is also called linear hydraulic motor. It is mainly used in engineering vehicles and other mechanical applications. Important functions of a hydraulic cylinder are pulling or pushing in engineering applications like in machine tools, earth moving equipments, construction equipments and space applications.

We can see the application of hydraulic cylinder in trucks, cranes, and tractor. Anything that gets lifted, pushed, pulled, dug, crushed etc by these construction equipments is possible due to the hydraulic cylinder. Other use of hydraulic cylinder is that it is used in car jacks, fixed on forklifts, elevators and excavators in buildings.

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