Modeling the warm-up process for hydraulic actuator components

Abstract

This paper discusses warm-up processes for the hydraulic system components of road construction machinery using mathematical and physical simulations. The efficiency of these processes is governed by warm-up and cool-down rates of the hydraulic actuator components. It studies how various hydraulic system components interface as they warm up. The general task is to estimate the dynamic behavior of the components and loops comprising such components and the entire warm-upsystem. The models of the transient heat flow process of the warm-up system are based on the heat balance equation of the flowing medium (of the heat transfer fluid – a hydraulic fluid) within the control volume. For experimental verification, the hydraulic actuator components warm-up modes using the warmed-up hydraulic fluid from the hydraulic tank have been tested on the hydraulic test bench that we developed. The example of consecutive warm-up of the hydraulic system components is given. Based on this, after the experimental findings were processed, correlation coefficients for different warm-up modes and types of relationships between the hydraulic actuator component temperatures and their warm-up times were determined.