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Rodhiana Khairunisa

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International Physics Education 2014

16th March 2016

HOW THE HYDRAULIC JACK WORK

While watching the video about physics project, I found the video about hydraulic jack.

I looked for the source that discuss about hydraulic jack. From the source that I found, they

discussed about that too specific in production and industry. My goal in this paper is to bring

the information about how the hydraulic jack work in general.

HYDRAULIC SYSTEM

Hydraulic systems have been widely known and not least we find these tools. The basic

idea of hydraulic system is force that is applied at one point is transmitted to another point

using an incompressible fluid. The fluid is almost always an oil of some sort. The force is

almost always multiplied in the process. This basic idea is come from Pascals Law.

Blas discovered the fundamental law for the science of hydraulics which states that

increase in pressure on the surface of a confined fluid is transmitted undiminished throughout

the confined vessel or system. (www.iosrjen.org)

The hydraulic system is a technology using fluid to perform a line of movement or

rotation. When liquid pressing, then the pressure will propagate in all directions with no

increase or decrease its power. The principle of the hydraulic circuit is using the working

fluid in the form of liquid displaced by the hydraulic pump to run a particular system. the
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fluid in the hydraulic system serves as the successor style. Mineral oil is a liquid fluid type is

commonly used. (Mansur: 2013)

HYDRAULIC JACK

The hydraulic jack is one of the forms of a fluid power system. It is very benefit

because by moving the handle of a small device, an individual can lift a load weighing

several tons. When the handle is operated, the plunger act then the oil from the reservoir is

sucked into the plunger cylinder during upward stroke of the plunger through the suction

valve. The oil in the plunger cylinder is delivered into the ram cylinder during the downward

stroke of the plunger through the delivery valve. This pressurized oil lifts the load up, which

is placed on top plate of the ram. After the work is completed the pressure in the ram cylinder

is released by unscrewing the lowering screw thus the pressure releases and the ram is

lowered, then the oil is rushed into the reservoir. It consists of plunger cylinder on one side

and ram cylinder on the other side. These two cylinders are mounted on base which is made

of mild steel. Plunger cylinder consists of plunger which is used to build up the pressure by

operating the handle. Plunger cylinder consists of two non-return valves i.e. one for suction

and other for delivery. Ram cylinder consists of ram which lifts the load. The ram cylinder

connected to delivery valve of plunger cylinder. It is also consists of lowering screw this is

nothing but a hand operated valve used for releasing the pressure in the ram cylinder for get

down the load. (www.iosrjen.org)

CONCLUSSION

The conclusion of this paper is hydraulic jack work based on Pascals Law about

hydraulic. Hydraulic jack work when the pressure of the reservoir transmitted to the ram

cylinder, and after the work is complete, the ram cylinder release the pressure then the oil is

rushed into the reservoir.

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WORKS CITED

Mansur, Same. 2013. SISTEM HIDROLIK. Selajambe.

Sainath, K. ads. 2014. Design of Mechanical Hydraulic Jack. IOSR Journal of Engineering.

www.iosrjen.org. Web. 16 March 2016, 13.10 WIB.