Engineering topics
Publications and source records attributed to Townsend, D. P..
Fluorinated polyethers are suitable lubricants for rolling-element bearings in cryogenic systems. Lubrication effectiveness is comparable to that of super-refined mineral oil lubricants operating at room temperature.
Effects of antiwear and extreme-pressure additives in synthetic paraffinic oil on ball spinning torque
Rolling-element fatigue and lubrication with fluorinated polyethers at cryogenic temperatures
Lubrication considerations in design of gears
Elastohydrodynamic analysis and experimental speed effects on ball spinning friction coefficients and torque
Rolling element lubrication tests using fluorinated polyether fluids at cryogenic temperatures
Feasibility tests on liquid lubricants for inerted lubrication systems of advanced aircraft engines
Elastohydrodynamic solution for ball torque spinning without rolling in nonconforming groove, showing increase in torque with stress and spinning and decreasing conformity
Liquid lubricants for recirculating inerted lubrication systems of Mach 3 aircraft gas turbine engines tested at high temperatures
Lubricants for recirculating inerted lubrication systems in Mach 3 aircraft engines