A program was developed to directly calculate the settling times and the maximum

percentage overshoots when the pump is subjected to various step increases in the delivery

pressure, as well as the collision velocity between the control piston and the stroke limiter at

different values of the step drop of delivery pressure. This program is shown in Appendix

[1]. In this program the settling time was calculated at the time after which the response is

always within ±5% of the steady state. The obtained simulation results are presented in Figs.

2.11, 2.12, and 2.13.

0.08

0.07

0.06
Settling time [s]

0.05

0.04

0.03

0.02

0.01

0.00
7.5 10.0 12.5 15.0 17.5 20.0 22.5 25.0 27.5 30.0
Pressure step increase [MPa]

Fig. 2.11 Variation of the control piston settling time with the value of the step delivery
pressure rise

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