Fluid Power Pumps and Motors: Analysis, Design and Control

If you want to learn about piston pumps, this book is a great place to start. Easy to follow explainations with great illustrations.

This book is very well written and thorough in its explanation of how to design a cylinder driven hydrostatic drive. The reason I gave it three stars instead of five is because the title is misleading. The title makes you think that the book is going to talk about numerous designs of pumps and motors. Instead, only one design is discussed--a major shortfall in my eyes. I was hoping this book would cover items like the Francis turbine, gear motors, screw motors, various pump designs, etc. However, it was just the one design that was discussed.

good reference book.

I am very impressed with this author's command of his subject. He gets right to the point in the first line of the preface: axial-piston swash-plate type pumps and motors. He means to bring us, as engineers, up to speed on the analysis, design, and implementation of these machines that are so necessary and ubiquitous in the modern world of aerospace and manufacturing . This author makes the text very readable even though much detail has to be presented to comprehensively cover each of the areas of analysis, design and control of each component of the pumps and motors. The book's organization follows logically as you work your way through designing a system.I especially appreciated that, while the book is very "hands on", theory discussions were not ignored and the math did not bog me down, but was very enlightening. Numerous charts and graphs presented performance and operational parameters. Additionally, many drawings show what these machines look like physically and operationally. To really understand all aspects of axial-piston swash-plate motors and pumps, get Dr. Manring's book. It will get the job done.