The July 2011 issue of Hydraulics and Pneumatics magazine featured an interesting application story about how hydraulics systems were designed and used in the “Spiderman: Turn off the Dark” Broadway musical. The article describes some of the challenges faced by motion systems designers, and how those challenges were solved.
One particularly challenging aspect of the hydraulic motion systems was the requirement that multiple hydraulically driven platforms had to be raised and lowered simultaneously. The motion of the platforms had to be very precisely controlled, making hydraulic component selection critical.
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