A test platform is established as per the practical working condition ofelevating platform fire truck. The influences of pipes and load on dynamic characteristics ofload-sensing system are studied by series of step response experiments. Experimental results showthat the feedback pipe makes the most important influence on the dynamic response speed ofload-sensing system. Its internal diameter should be optimized for given length of pipe. On theother hand, the stability of load-sensing pump is improved as the length of input pipe increases ina certain range. The influence of input pipe on the dynamic response speed is caused mainly by thepressure-wave travel time in the input pipe.
The traditional lumped parameter model of fluid pipe is introduced and itsdrawbacks are pointed out. Furthermore, two suggestions are put forward to remove these drawbacks.Firstly, the structure of equivalent circuit is modified, and then the evaluation of equivalentfluid resistance is change to take the frequency-dependent function into account. Both simulationand experiment prove that this model is precise to characterize the dynamic behaviors of fluid inpipe.
The simulation model of a valve control hydraulic system with long pipe isestablished in Simulink4.0, and then the step responses of the systems with difference pipeparameters are investigated by simulation. Simulation results show that the long pipes will slowdown the step response of system and make it fluctuate periodically. The results of simulationconform to the results of experiment on the whole, which proves the mathematic model is correct.
