CONTENTS

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1 INTRODUCTION
1.1.1 PNEUMATICS 2
1.1.2 PNEUMATICS AND OTHER STUDIES 2
1.1.3 GASES USED IN PNEUMATIC SYSTEMS 3
1.2 ADVANTAGES OF PNEUMATICS 4
1.3 JEAN LOUIS MARIE POISEUILLE 5
1.4 PNEUMATIC FLUID 6
1.5 FUNCTIONS AND PROPERTIES 7
1.6 NEED FOR AUTOMATION 8
2 NEED FOR PNEUMATIC SYSTEM 10
2.1 PNEUMATIC SYSTEM 10
2.2 COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGES 10
2.3 FAMILIARITY OF PNEUMATIC PRINCIPLES 12
3 COMPONENTS AND DESCRIPTION
3.1 SINGLE ACTING PNEUMATIC CYLINDER 13
3.1.1 PNEUMATIC CYLINDER 14
3.1.2 OPERATION 15
3.1.3 TYPES 16
3.1.4 SINGLE-ACTING CYLINDER 16
3.1.5 DOUBLE-ACTING CYLINDERS 16
3.1.6 MULTI-STAGE, TELESCOPING CYLINDERS 16
3.1.7 OTHER TYPES 17
3.1.8 PNEUMATIC CYLINDER FORCE 18
3.1.9 IN STROKE AND OUTSTROKE 18
 3.1.10 OUTSTROKE 19

3.1.11 INSTROKE 19

3.1.12 HELICAL SPRING 20

4 SPECIFICATION 22
4.1 SINGLE ACTING PNEUMATIC CYLINDER 22
5 BLOCK DIAGRAM 23
6 WORKING PRINCIPLE 24
6.1 PRINCIPLE 24
6.2 WORKING OPERATION 24
7 CALCULATION 25
8 ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES
8.1 ADVANTAGES 26
8.2 COST ESTIMATION 27
9 APPLICATIONS 28
10 CONCLUSION 29
11 REFERENCE 30