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Lubrication Handbook for the Space Industry - Part A; Solid Lubricants - Part B; Liquid Lubricants

This handbook was prepared by Ernest L. McMurtrey, Lubrication and Surface
Physics Branch, Engineering Physics Division, Materials and Processes Laboratory,
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, George C. Marshall Space Flight
Center, Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama 35812.

The previous handbook was prepared by Midwest Research Institute, 425 Volker
Boulevard, Kansas City, Missouri 64110, Report No. NASA CR-161109, Report Date
September 1978, Contract No. NASS—31715, Sponsoring Agency: National Aeronautics
and Space Administration, Washington, D.C. 20546, under the technical supervision
of Ernest L. McMurtrey.

Part A of the handbook is divided into six major sections and Part B into four
sections. Section I, introduction, defines solid lubricants, outlines their advantages
and disadvantages, states the purpose of Part A and gives a general description of
the various types of solid lubricants; Section 11 contains alphabetical lists of manu—
facturers and products, compatibility, and usage tables for selected bonded solid
lubricants and composite materials; Section III contains data sheets which give general
composition and physical properties of selected lubricants; Section IV includes data
sheets listing manufacturer supplied test and application data; Section V covers
laboratory test data obtained at MRI on selected solid film lubricants, gear test data
and composite materials; Section VI containing three appendices, one a glossary of
terms, the second containing excerpts of solid lubricant specifications, and the third,
description of test apparatus and procedures used in laboratory evaluation of solid
lubricants.

The four sections of Part B are Section I, introduction, which states the
purpose of Part B, gives instructions for use of Part B, presents indices of all
materials included, and a series of charts illustrating various kinds of potential
application; Section 11 includes brief written description of military specifications;
Section 111 contains data sheets, listing physical and chemical properties of selected
lubricants; Section IV contains results of long—term evaluation of selected grease
lubricants; and Section V containing three appendices, one a glossary of lubrication
terms, the second a series of summaries of standard testing methods used to evaluate
lubricating oils, gears, and fluids and the third information system international (SI)
units and conversion factors.